King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G763
Transliteration: asebeia
Phonetic Spelling: (as-eb'-i-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: ungodliness, impiety
Meaning: ungodliness, impiety
ἀσέβεια, ἀσεβείας, ἡ (ἀσεβής, which see), want of reverence toward God, impiety, ungodliness: Romans 1:18; 2 Timothy 2:16; Titus 2:12; plural ungodly thoughts and deeds, Romans 11:26 (from Isaiah 59:20); τά ἔργα ἀσεβείας (Treg. brackets ἀσεβείας), works of ungodliness, a Hebraism, Jude 1:15, cf. Winers Grammar, § 34, 3 b.; (Buttmann, § 132, 10); αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι τῶν ἀσεβειῶν their desires to do ungodly deeds, Jude 1:18. (In Greek writings from (Euripides), Plato, and Xenophon down; in the Sept. it corresponds chiefly to פֶּשַׁע .)
Word Summary
asebeia: ungodliness, impiety
Original Word: ἀσέβειαTransliteration: asebeia
Phonetic Spelling: (as-eb'-i-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: ungodliness, impiety
Meaning: ungodliness, impiety
Strong's Concordance
ungodly, ungodliness. From asebes; impiety, i.e. (by implication) wickedness -- ungodly(-liness).
see GREEK asebes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 763: ἀσέβειαἀσέβεια, ἀσεβείας, ἡ (ἀσεβής, which see), want of reverence toward God, impiety, ungodliness: Romans 1:18; 2 Timothy 2:16; Titus 2:12; plural ungodly thoughts and deeds, Romans 11:26 (from Isaiah 59:20); τά ἔργα ἀσεβείας (Treg. brackets ἀσεβείας), works of ungodliness, a Hebraism, Jude 1:15, cf. Winers Grammar, § 34, 3 b.; (Buttmann, § 132, 10); αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι τῶν ἀσεβειῶν their desires to do ungodly deeds, Jude 1:18. (In Greek writings from (Euripides), Plato, and Xenophon down; in the Sept. it corresponds chiefly to פֶּשַׁע .)