ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑ, μοιχεια
MOICHEIA, moicheia
Sounds Like: moy-KHEH-yah
Translations: adultery, a adultery
From the root: ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act of sexual infidelity, specifically adultery. It describes the act of a married person having sexual relations with someone other than their spouse. It is often used in a moral or legal context to denote a serious transgression against marital vows and societal norms.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Vocative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3431 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 20:1
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:92
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 25:20
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 93:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑ.
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.
- ΕἸΣΜΟΙΧΕΙΑΝ — adultery, an adultery, into adultery, for adultery
- ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑΙ — adulteries, acts of adultery
- ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑΝ — adultery, an adultery, fornication
- ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑΣ — of adultery, of fornication, of sexual immorality
- ΜΟΙΧΙΑΙ — adulteries, acts of adultery
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