μοιχός
adulterer
‘adulterer’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3432 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. 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
1 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.
“adulterer” is the headline sense of the Greek noun μοιχος (moichós). It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. More than a third of its appearances fall in Luke. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 18:11. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3432 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 33%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 33%
- Hebrews 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 33%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 33%
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: Adulterers 3×
- American Standard Version: Adulterers 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Adulterers 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Adulterers 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3432 across 4 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 G3432 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3432 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3432 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- an adulterer
- metaph. one who is faithless toward God, ungodly
Word origin
Origin: perhaps a primary word
Perhaps a primary word; a (male) paramour ; figuratively apostate : - adulterer.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3432 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μοιχοί moichoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 18:11 | 1 |
| μοιχοὶ moichoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 6:9 | 1 |
| μοιχοὺς moichoùs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 13:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3432, 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.
Derived from this word
- μοιχαλις moichalís G3428 adulteress
- μοιχαω moicháō G3429 to commit adultery
- μοιχευω moicheúō G3431 to commit adultery
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μοιχος appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 4 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 24:15 μοιχός
- Psalms 49:18 μοιχός
- Proverbs 6:32 μοιχός
- Isaiah 57:3 μοιχός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3432) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 24:15 μοιχός The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
- Psalms 49:18 μοιχός Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- And men praise you when you do well for yourself--
- Proverbs 6:32 μοιχός He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
- Isaiah 57:3 μοιχός But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3432) 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.
