αἰσχύνη
shame
‘shame’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G152 appears in the Genitive case, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
αισχυνη (aischýnē) is a Greek noun most often rendered “shame.” It first appears in Luke 14:9. Spanning 6 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Related forms include αισχυνομαι and αισχρος. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G152 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 17%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 17%
- Philippians 1 verse 17%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 33%
- Gospels 1 verse · 17%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 17%
- Johannine 1 verse · 17%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 17%
- Revelation 1 verse · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shame 5×
- American Standard Version: Shame 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shame 3×, Shameful 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shame 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G152 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G152 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G152 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G152 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the confusion of one who is ashamed of anything, sense of shame
- ignominy, disgrace, dishonour
- a thing to be ashamed of
Word origin
Derived from αισχυνομαι (aischýnomai) (G153) — to shame.
From G153 ; shame or disgrace (abstractly or concretely): - dishonesty shame.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G152 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| αἰσχύνης aischýnēs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 14:9 | 3 |
| αἰσχύνας aischýnas | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Jude 1:13 | 1 |
| αἰσχύνη aischýnē | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 3:18 | 1 |
| αἰσχύνῃ aischýnē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Philippians 3:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G152, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αισχυνη appears 56 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 54 verses in 18 books.
- 56
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 54
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 20:30 αἰσχύνη
- 2 Samuel 23:7 αἰσχύνη
- 1 Kings 18:19 αἰσχύνη
- 2 Kings 8:11 αἰσχύνη
- 2 Chronicles 32:21 αἰσχύνη
- Ezra 9:7 αἰσχύνη
- Job 6:20 αἰσχύνη
- Psalms 34:26 αἰσχύνη
- Proverbs 9:13 αἰσχύνη
- Isaiah 3:9 αἰσχύνη
- Jeremiah 2:26 αἰσχύνη
- Ezekiel 7:18 αἰσχύνη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G152) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 54. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 20:30 αἰσχύνη Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
- 2 Samuel 23:7 αἰσχύνη But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear: They shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place
- 1 Kings 18:19 αἰσχύνη Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
- 1 Kings 18:25 αἰσχύνη Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
- 2 Kings 8:11 αἰσχύνη He settled his gaze steadfastly [on him], until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
- 2 Chronicles 32:21 αἰσχύνη Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he was come into the house of his god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword.
- Ezra 9:7 αἰσχύνη Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
- Job 6:20 αἰσχύνη They were distressed because they were confident; They came there, and were confounded.
- Job 8:22 αἰσχύνη Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
- Psalms 34:26 αἰσχύνη
- Psalms 39:16 αἰσχύνη
- Psalms 43:16 αἰσχύνη
- Psalms 68:20 αἰσχύνη God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
- Psalms 70:13 αἰσχύνη
- Psalms 88:46 αἰσχύνη
- Psalms 108:29 αἰσχύνη
- Psalms 131:18 αἰσχύνη
- Proverbs 9:13 αἰσχύνη The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.
- Proverbs 19:13 αἰσχύνη A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
- Proverbs 26:11 αἰσχύνη As a dog that returns to his vomit, So is a fool who repeats his folly.
- Isaiah 3:9 αἰσχύνη The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
- Isaiah 19:9 αἰσχύνη Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded.
- Isaiah 20:4 αἰσχύνη so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
- Isaiah 30:3 αἰσχύνη Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
- Isaiah 30:5 αἰσχύνη They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- Isaiah 30:6 αἰσχύνη The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
- Isaiah 42:17 αἰσχύνη They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.
- Isaiah 45:16 αἰσχύνη They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.
- Isaiah 47:3 αἰσχύνη Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.
- Isaiah 47:10 αἰσχύνη For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
- Isaiah 50:6 αἰσχύνη I gave my back to the strikers, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.
- Isaiah 54:4 αἰσχύνη Don't be afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood shall you remember no more.
- Jeremiah 2:26 αἰσχύνη As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
- Jeremiah 3:24 αἰσχύνη But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
- Jeremiah 3:25 αἰσχύνη Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.
- Jeremiah 20:18 αἰσχύνη Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- Jeremiah 38:19 αἰσχύνη Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
- Ezekiel 7:18 αἰσχύνη They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
- Ezekiel 16:36 αἰσχύνη Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
- Ezekiel 16:37 αἰσχύνη therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
- Ezekiel 22:10 αἰσχύνη In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
- Ezekiel 23:10 αἰσχύνη These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
- Ezekiel 23:18 αἰσχύνη So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
- Ezekiel 23:29 αἰσχύνη and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
- Daniel 3:33 αἰσχύνη
- Daniel 3:40 αἰσχύνη
- Daniel 9:7 αἰσχύνη Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
- Daniel 9:8 αἰσχύνη Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
- Daniel 12:2 αἰσχύνη Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Hosea 9:10 αἰσχύνη I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; But they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, And became abominable like that which they loved.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G152) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
