Word Summary
asebeō: to be impious, to be ungodly
Original Word: ἀσεβέωTransliteration: asebeō
Phonetic Spelling: (as-eb-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be impious, to be ungodly
Meaning: to be impious, to be ungodly
Strong's Concordance
live ungodly, be impious.
From asebes; to be (by implied act) impious or wicked -- commit (live, that after should live) ungodly.
see GREEK asebes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 764: ἀσεβέωἀσεβέω,
ἀσεβω; 1 aorist
ἠσέβησα; (
ἀσεβής, which see); from (
Aeschylus),
Xenophon, and
Plato down;
to be ungodly, act impiously:
2 Peter 2:6;
ἀσεβεῖν ἔργα ἀσεβείας (
Treg. brackets
ἀσεβείας)
Jude 1:15, cf.
Winers Grammar, 222 (209); (
Buttmann, 149 (130)). (Equivalent to
פָּשַׁע ,
Zephaniah 3:11;
רָשַׁע ,
Daniel 9:5.)