Word Summary
aschēmosynē: unseemliness
Original Word: ἀσχημοσύνηTransliteration: aschēmosynē
Phonetic Spelling: (as-kay-mos-oo'-nay)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: unseemliness
Meaning: unseemliness
Strong's Concordance
shame, that which is unseemly.
From askemon; an indecency; by implication, the pudenda -- shame, that which is unseemly.
see GREEK askemon
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 808: ἀσχημοσύνηἀσχημοσύνη,
ἀσχημοσύνης,
ἡ (
ἀσχήμων); from
Plato down;
unseemliness, an unseemly deed:
Romans 1:27; of the pudenda, one's
nakedness, shame:
Revelation 16:15, as in
Exodus 20:26;
Deuteronomy 23:14, etc. (In Greek writings from
Plato down.)