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Strong's #808 - ἀσχημοσύνη
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- unseemliness, an unseemly deed
- of a woman's genitals
- of one's nakedness, shame
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ἀσχημ-οσύνη, ἡ,
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1. want of form, ἀ. καὶ ἀμορφία Arist. Ph. 190b15, cf. 188b20, Simp. in Cael. 129.26.
2. ungracefulness, Pl. Smp. 196a, R. 401a; awkwardness, Id. Tht. 174c; disfigurement, τοῦ προσώπου, in playing on the flute, Arist. Pol. 1341b5.
3. ἀ. φέρει brings discredit, disgrace, Id. EN 1126b33.
II in moral sense, indecorum, obscene or disgraceful conduct, Romans 1:27 : in pl., Ph. 1.78, Vett.Val. 61.31.
III euphem.for αἰδοῖον, LXX Leviticus 18:7,al.; for ἀπόπατος, ib. Deuteronomy 23:13(14).
ἀσχημοσύνη, ἀσχημοσύνης, ἡ (ἀσχήμων); from Plato down; unseemliness, an unseemly deed: Romans 1:27; of the pudenda, one's nakedness, shame: Revelation 16:15, as in Exodus 20:26; Deuteronomy 23:14, etc. (In Greek writings from Plato down.)
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ἀσχημοσύνη , -ης , ή
(< ἀσχήμων ),
[in LXX chiefly for H6172;]
unseemliness: Romans 1:27 (MM, s.v.); euphemism for ἡ αἰσχύνη , as freq. in LXX, shame, nakedness: Revelation 16:15.†
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For ἀ . in Romans 1:27 = opus obscaenum, Lietzmann (HZNT III. i. ad l.) refers to Philo Legg. Alleg. II. 66, p. 78 τῆς . . ἀναισχυντίας παραδείγματα αἱ ἀσχημοσύναι πᾶσαι : cf. III. 158, p. 118. Vettius Valens p. 61.31 ἐν ἀσχημοσύναις καὶ κατακρίσεσι , apparently ";scandals and condemnations.";
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