2001 Translation

MOICHOS, moichos

Sounds Like: MOY-khos

Translations: adulterer, a male adulterer

From the root: ΜΟΙΧΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a male who commits adultery. It is used to describe someone who engages in illicit sexual relations, particularly with a married person. It can be used in a literal sense for a person who breaks marital vows, or metaphorically for someone unfaithful to God.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3432 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 10:7

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:88, 2:107

Codex Sinaiticus

• Proverbs — 6:32
• Epistle of Barnabas — 10:7
• Shepherd of Hermas — 31:5

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 12:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Proverbs — 6:32

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 6 — 5:5

From the same root

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

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.

• ΜΟΙΧΙΑ — adultery, an act of adultery
• ΜΟΙΧΟΙ — adulterers
• ΜΟΙΧΟΝ — adulterer, a male adulterer
• ΜΟΙΧΟΥ — of an adulterer, of the adulterer
• ΜΟΙΧΟΥΣ — adulterers
• ΜΟΙΧΩΝ — of adulterers, of fornicators
• ΜΟΙΧΩΤΑΙ — adulterers, adulterous men

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