Indecency
ἀσχημοσύνηStrong’s G0808aschēmosunē
Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament
In short
Aschēmosunē is the Greek word usually translated “shame”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.
“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”
Meaning
Usually translated “shame”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- shame 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Romans 1
- Revelation 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary
ἀσχημοσύνη aschēmosunē · indecency
ἀσχημοσύνη, -ης, ή (ἀσχήμων), [in LXX chiefly for עֶרְוָה ;] unseemliness: Rom.1:27 (MM, see word); euphemism for ἡ αἰσχύνη, as frequently in LXX, shame, nakedness: Rev.16:15.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “indecency” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INDE'CENCY, noun
[Latin indecens, indeceo; in and deceo, to become.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.