STRONGS G766:
ἀσέλγεια,
-ας,
ἡ, the conduct and character of one who is
ἀσελγής (a word which some suppose to be compounded of the
α privative and
Σέλγη, the name of a city in Pisidia whose citizens excelled in strictness of morals [so
Etym. Magn. 152, 38; per contra cf. Suidas 603 d.]: others of
α intensive and
σαλαγεῖν, to disturb, raise a din; others, and now the majority, of
α privative and
σέλγω equivalent to
θέλγω, not affecting pleasantly, exciting disgust),
unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence: Mark 7:22 (where it is uncertain what particular vice is spoken of); of gluttony and venery,
Jude 1:4; plural,
1 Peter 4:3;
2 Peter 2:2 (for
Rec. ἀπωλείαις),
2 Peter 2:18; of carnality,
lasciviousness:
2 Corinthians 12:21;
Galatians 5:19;
Ephesians 4:19;
2 Peter 2:7; plural "
wanton (
acts or)
manners, as filthy words, indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of males and females, etc." (Fritzsche),
Romans 13:13. (In Biblical Greek besides only in Wis. 14:26 and 3 Macc. 2:26. Among Greek writings used by Plato, Isocrates and following; at length by Plutarch [Lucull. 38] and Lucian [dial. meretr. 6] of the wantonness of women [
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 184 n.].) Cf. Tittmann i., p. 151f; [especially Trench, § xvi.].
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