2001 Translation

ASELGEIA, aselgeia

Sounds Like: ah-sel-GEY-ah

Translations: licentiousness, sensuality, debauchery, wantonness, lewdness, unbridled lust, a licentiousness

From the root: ἈΣΕΛΓΕΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to unbridled lust, wantonness, or debauchery, often implying a lack of moral restraint and public indecency. It describes a shameless and excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, without regard for public opinion or moral standards. It is used to denote a state of moral depravity or a specific act of outrageous conduct.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G0766 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:75, 9:10

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 20 — 5:112

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Wisdom — 14:26

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 15:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Mark — 7:22
• 2 Corinthians — 12:21
• Galatians — 5:19
• Ephesians — 4:19
• 2 Peter — 2:7

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΕΛΓΕΙΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΣΕΛΓΕΙ — to debauchery, to sensuality, to licentiousness, to wantonness, to unbridled lust, to outrageousness, to insolence, to shamelessness
• ἈΣΕΛΓΕΙΑΙΣ — wantonness, sensuality, debauchery, licentiousness, lewdness, unbridled lust, an act of wantonness, acts of wantonness
• ἈΣΕΛΓΕΙΑΝ — licentiousness, sensuality, debauchery, wantonness, unbridled lust, a licentiousness, a sensuality, a debauchery, a wantonness, an unbridled lust
• ἈΣΕΛΓΕΙΑΣ — of licentiousness, of sensuality, of debauchery, of wantonness, of unbridled lust, of outrageousness
• ἈΣΕΛΓΙΑΙΣ — licentiousness, sensuality, debauchery, wantonness, lewdness, unbridled lust

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