ἀσεβής
impious
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where G765 appears in the Genitive case, across 2 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.
Romans 1 verse
2 Peter 2 verses
- 2 Peter 2:5 ἀσεβῶν adj gen pl masc and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
- 2 Peter 3:7 ἀσεβῶν adj gen pl masc But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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.
The Greek adjective ασεβης centers on the idea of “impious.” Its earliest occurrence is Romans 4:5. It appears 8 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Romans (25%), then 2 Peter and Jude. It clusters with Α, αβαρης and αβυσσος under a shared root. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G765 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
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 8 distinct verses.
- General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 63%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 38%
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: Ungodly 7×
- American Standard Version: Ungodly 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ungodly 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ungodly 7×, Ones 2×, Ungodly ones 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G765 across 9 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G765 across 9 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G765 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G765 across 13 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 1 sense 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.
- destitute of reverential awe towards God, condemning God, impious
Word origin
Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G765 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀσεβεῖς asebeîs | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Jude 1:4 | 3 |
| ἀσεβῶν asebō̂n | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Romans 5:6 | 3 |
| ἀσεβέσι asebési | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Timothy 1:9 | 1 |
| ἀσεβήν asebḗn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 4:5 | 1 |
| ἀσεβὴς asebḕs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 4:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G765, 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
- αβαρης abarḗs G4 light
- αβυσσος ábyssos G12 abyss
- αγαμος ágamos G22 unmarried
- αγενεαλογητος agenealógētos G35 without genealogy
- αγενης agenḗs G36 ignoble
- αγναφος ágnaphos G46 unprocessed
- αγνοεω agnoéō G50 to be ignorant
- αγνωσια agnōsía G56 ignorance
- αγνωστος ágnōstos G57 unknown
- αγραμματος agrámmatos G62 unlearned
- αγρυπνεω agrypnéō G69 to watch
- αδαπανος adápanos G77 free
- αδελφος adelphós G80 brother
- αδηλος ádēlos G82 obscure
- αδης háidēs G86 hell
- αδιακριτος adiákritos G87 clear
- αδιαλειπτος adiáleiptos G88 continual
- αδικος ádikos G94 unjust
- αδοκιμος adókimos G96 unapproved
- αδολος ádolos G97 guileless
- αδυνατος adýnatos G102 weak
- αζυμος ázymos G106 unleavened
- αθανασια athanasía G110 immortal
- αθεμιτος athémitos G111 unlawful
+149 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 178 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ασεβης appears 194 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 184 verses in 12 books.
- 194
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 184
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 18:23 ἀσεβής
- Exodus 9:27 ἀσεβής
- Deuteronomy 25:1 ἀσεβής
- Job 3:17 ἀσεβής
- Psalms 1:1 ἀσεβής
- Proverbs 1:7 ἀσεβής
- Ecclesiastes 3:16 ἀσεβής
- Isaiah 5:23 ἀσεβής
- Jeremiah 5:26 ἀσεβής
- Ezekiel 20:38 ἀσεβής
- Hosea 14:10 ἀσεβής
- Habakkuk 1:4 ἀσεβής
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G765) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 184. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 18:23 ἀσεβής Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
- Genesis 18:25 ἀσεβής Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
- Exodus 9:27 ἀσεβής Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
- Exodus 23:7 ἀσεβής "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
- Deuteronomy 25:1 ἀσεβής If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
- Job 3:17 ἀσεβής There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
- Job 8:13 ἀσεβής So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
- Job 8:19 ἀσεβής Behold, this is the joy of his way: Out of the earth shall others spring.
- Job 8:20 ἀσεβής "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
- Job 8:22 ἀσεβής Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
- Job 9:24 ἀσεβής The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not he, then who is it?
- Job 9:29 ἀσεβής I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
- Job 10:3 ἀσεβής Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
- Job 10:15 ἀσεβής If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.
- Job 11:20 ἀσεβής But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, They shall have no way to flee; Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."
- Job 15:20 ἀσεβής The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
- Job 15:34 ἀσεβής For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
- Job 16:11 ἀσεβής God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
- Job 18:5 ἀσεβής "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
- Job 20:5 ἀσεβής That the triumphing of the wicked is short, The joy of the godless but for a moment?
- Job 20:29 ἀσεβής This is the portion of a wicked man from God, The heritage appointed to him by God."
- Job 21:7 ἀσεβής "Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
- Job 21:16 ἀσεβής Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- Job 21:17 ἀσεβής "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?
- Job 21:28 ἀσεβής For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
- Job 22:18 ἀσεβής Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- Job 24:2 ἀσεβής There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
- Job 24:6 ἀσεβής They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
- Job 27:7 ἀσεβής "Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
- Job 27:8 ἀσεβής For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, When God takes away his life?
- Job 27:13 ἀσεβής "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, The heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
- Job 32:3 ἀσεβής Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- Job 34:8 ἀσεβής Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
- Job 34:18 ἀσεβής Who says to a king, 'Vile!' Or to nobles, 'Wicked!'
- Job 34:26 ἀσεβής He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;
- Job 36:6 ἀσεβής He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.
- Job 36:12 ἀσεβής But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; They shall die without knowledge.
- Job 36:18 ἀσεβής Don't let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
- Job 38:13 ἀσεβής That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it?
- Job 38:15 ἀσεβής From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken.
- Job 40:12 ἀσεβής Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
- Psalms 1:1 ἀσεβής Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the way of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
- Psalms 1:4 ἀσεβής The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
- Psalms 1:5 ἀσεβής Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
- Psalms 1:6 ἀσεβής For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked shall perish.
- Psalms 9:6 ἀσεβής The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
- Psalms 9:23 ἀσεβής
- Psalms 9:34 ἀσεβής
- Psalms 10:5 ἀσεβής His ways are prosperous at all times; He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight: As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
- Psalms 11:9 ἀσεβής
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G765) 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.
