ἀσχημοσύνη
indecency
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G808 appears in the Book of Romans — 1 distinct verse. 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
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.
ασχημοσυνη — transliterated aschēmosýnē — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “indecency.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. More than half of its appearances fall in Romans. It first appears in Romans 1:27. Related forms include ασχημων and ασχημονεω. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G808 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 1 verse 50%
- Revelation 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Johannine 1 verse · 50%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
- Revelation 1 verse · 50%
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: Is unseemly 1×, Shame 1×
- American Standard Version: Shame 1×, Unseemliness 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Indecent 1×, Shame 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Indecency 1×, Shameless acts 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G808 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G808 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G808 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G808 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- unseemliness, an unseemly deed
Word origin
Derived from ασχημων (aschḗmōn) (G809) — unseemly.
From G809 ; an indecency ; by implication the pudenda : - shame that which is unseemly.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G808, 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
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ασχημοσυνη appears 41 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 29 verses in 7 books.
- 41
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 29
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 20:26 ἀσχημοσύνη
- Leviticus 18:6 ἀσχημοσύνη
- Deuteronomy 23:14 ἀσχημοσύνη
- Ezra 4:14 ἀσχημοσύνη
- Lamentations 1:8 ἀσχημοσύνη
- Ezekiel 16:8 ἀσχημοσύνη
- Hosea 2:11 ἀσχημοσύνη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G808) 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.
- Exodus 20:26 ἀσχημοσύνη Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'
- Exodus 22:26 ἀσχημοσύνη If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
- Exodus 28:42 ἀσχημοσύνη You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even to the thighs they shall reach:
- Leviticus 18:6 ἀσχημοσύνη "'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 18:7 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:8 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife: it is your father's nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:9 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.
- Leviticus 18:10 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:11 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister. "'
- Leviticus 18:12 ἀσχημοσύνη You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near kinswoman.
- Leviticus 18:13 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your mother's near kinswoman.
- Leviticus 18:14 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not approach his wife: she is your aunt.
- Leviticus 18:15 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:16 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
- Leviticus 18:17 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
- Leviticus 18:18 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
- Leviticus 18:19 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
- Leviticus 20:11 ἀσχημοσύνη The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:17 ἀσχημοσύνη "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 20:18 ἀσχημοσύνη "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:19 ἀσχημοσύνη "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
- Leviticus 20:20 ἀσχημοσύνη If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
- Leviticus 20:21 ἀσχημοσύνη "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
- Deuteronomy 23:14 ἀσχημοσύνη for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
- Deuteronomy 23:15 ἀσχημοσύνη You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:
- Ezra 4:14 ἀσχημοσύνη Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and informed the king;
- Lamentations 1:8 ἀσχημοσύνη Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
- Ezekiel 16:8 ἀσχημοσύνη Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
- Hosea 2:11 ἀσχημοσύνη I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G808) 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.
