Word Summary
anaideia: shamelessness
Original Word: ἀναίδειαTransliteration: anaideia
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ah'-ee-die-ah')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: shamelessness
Meaning: shamelessness
Strong's Concordance
importunity, shamelessness.
From a compound of a (as a negative particle (compare aneu)) and aidos; impudence, i.e. (by implication) importunity -- importunity.
see GREEK a
see GREEK aneu
see GREEK aidos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 335: ἀναίδειαἀναίδεια (
T WH ἀναιδία; see I, i),
(ας,
ἡ, (
ἀναιδής, and this from
ἡ αἰδώς a sense of shame); from
Homer down;
shamelessness, impudence:
Luke 11:8 (of an importunate man, persisting in his eritreaties; (
A. V. importunity)).