Lexical Summary asebeia: ungodliness, impiety Original Word: ἀσέβειαTransliteration: asebeia Phonetic Spelling: (as-eb'-i-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: ungodliness, impiety Meaning: ungodliness, impiety Strong's Concordance ungodly, ungodliness. From asebes; impiety, i.e. (by implication) wickedness -- ungodly(-liness). see GREEK asebes Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 763: ἀσέβειαἀσέβεια, ἀσεβείας, ἡ (ἀσεβής, which see), want of reverence toward God, impiety, ungodliness: Romans 1:18; 2 Timothy 2:16; Titus 2:12; plural ungodly thoughts and deeds, Romans 11:26 (from Isaiah 59:20); τά ἔργα ἀσεβείας (Treg. brackets ἀσεβείας), works of ungodliness, a Hebraism, Jude 1:15, cf. Winers Grammar, § 34, 3 b.; (Buttmann, § 132, 10); αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι τῶν ἀσεβειῶν their desires to do ungodly deeds, Jude 1:18. (In Greek writings from (Euripides), Plato, and Xenophon down; in the Sept. it corresponds chiefly to פֶּשַׁע .) |
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