ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑΣ, μοιχειας
MOICHEIAS, moicheias
Sounds Like: moy-KHEI-as
Translations: of adultery, of fornication, of sexual immorality
From the root: ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act of adultery or sexual immorality. It is used to describe illicit sexual relations, particularly those involving a married person. It can also broadly refer to any form of unfaithfulness or spiritual idolatry.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3431 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:88
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 10:340
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 9:55
Justin Martyr
- Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:4
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 8:5
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
- ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑ — adultery, a adultery
- ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑΙ — adulteries, acts of adultery
- ΜΟΙΧΕΙΑΝ — adultery, an adultery, fornication
- ΜΟΙΧΙΑΙ — adulteries, acts of adultery
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