Quick Definition
I commit adultery
Strong's Definition
to commit adultery
Derivation: from G3432 (μοιχός);
KJV Usage: commit adultery
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μοιχεύω; future μοιχεύσω; 1 aorist ἐμοίχευσα; passive, present participle μοιχευομένη; 1 aorist infinitive μοιχευθῆναι; (μοιχός); from Aristophanes and Xenophon down; the Sept. for πΘΰΗσ; to commit adultery;
a. absolutely (to be an adulterer): Mat_5:27; Mat_19:18; Mar_10:19; Luk_16:18; Luk_18:20; Rom_2:22; Rom_13:9; Jas_2:11.
b. τινα (γυναῖκα), to commit adultery with, have unlawful intercourse with another's wife: Mat_5:28 (Deu_5:18; Lev_20:10; Aristophanes av. 558; Plato, rep. 2, p. 360 b.; Lucian, dial. deor. 6, 3; Aristaenet. epistles 1, 20; Aeschines dial. Socrates 2, 14); passive of the wife, to suffer adultery, be debauched: Mat_5:32 a L T Tr WH; (Mat_19:9 WH marginal reading); Joh_8:4. By a Hebraism (see μοιχαλίς, b.) tropically, μετά τίνος (γυναικός) μοιχεύειν is used of those who at a woman's solicitation are drawn away to idolatry, i. e. to the eating of things sacrificed to idols, Rev_2:22; cf. Jer_3:9, etc.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μοιχεύω moicheuō 15x
trans. to commit adultery with, debauch, Mat_5:28 ;
absol. and mid.
to commit adultery, Mat_5:27 ; Joh_8:4 ;
to commit spiritual adultery, be guilty of idolatry, Rev_2:22 adultery; commit adultery.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μοιχεύω
( < μοιχός ),
[in LXX : Exo_20:13 , Lev_20:10 , al. ( H5003 );]
to commit adultery: absol. , Mat_5:27 ; Mat_19:18 , Mar_10:19 , Luk_16:18 ; Luk_18:20 , Rom_2:22 ; Rom_13:9 , Jas_2:11 ; c . acc fem., Mat_5:28 . Pass ., of the woman, Mat_5:32 ; Mat_19:9 WH , mg .), Joh_8:4 . Metaph ., of idolatry ( see μιοιχαλίς , and cf. Jer_3:9 , a1.), seq . μετ᾿ αὐτῆς , Rev_2:22 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μοιχεύω [page 416]
μοιχεύω , commit adultery on the part of the man, occurs in the astrologicai PSI III. 158 .45 (iii/A.D. ?) οἱ δὲ καὶ τὰς ἰδ [ί ]ας γυναῖκας μοιχεύουσιν : cf. Mat_5:28 . For a discussion of the verb and its cognates in later classical and in Jewish Greek cf. R. H. Charles, The Teaching of the New Testament on Divorce (London, 1921) p. 91 ff., and see s.v. πορνεύω , also Wackernagel, Hellenistica, p. 9.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μοιχεύω μοιχεύω, φυτ. -σω "to commit adultery with" a woman, "to debauch" her, c. acc., Ar. , Plat. :—Pass., of the woman, Ar. intr. "to commit adultery", Lat. moechari, id=Ar. , Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μοιχεύω
(μοιχός), [in LXX: Exo.20:13, Lev.20:10, al. (נָאַף) ;]
to commit adultery: absol., Mat.5:27 19:18, Mrk.10:19, Luk.16:18 18:20, Rom.2:22 13:9, Jas.2:11; with accusative fem., Mat.5:28. Pass., of the woman, Mat.5:32 19:9 WH, mg.), Jhn.8:4. Metaphorical, of idolatry (see: μιοιχαλίς, and cf. Jer.3:9, a1.), before μετ᾽ αὐτῆς, Rev.2:22.†
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