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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + σέβομαι (sébomai, “I feel awe”) + -ής (-ḗs, adjective suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.se.bɛ̌ːs/ → /a.seˈβis/ → /a.seˈvis/
Adjective
ἀσεβής • (asebḗs) m or f (neuter ἀσεβές); second declension
- ungodly, godless, unholy, profane, sinful, sacrilegious
Inflection
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- ᾰ̓σέβειᾰ f (asébeia, “impiety”)
- ᾰ̓σεβέω (asebéō, “I am impious, sin”)
- ᾰ̓σέβημα n (asébēma, “impious act”)
- and see σέβας (sébas, “reverential awe”), σέβομαι (sébomai, “revere, worship”), σέβω (sébō, “worship, honour”)
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀσεβής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀσεβής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀσεβής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀσεβής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G765 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blasphemous idem, page 82.
- godless idem, page 365.
- immoral idem, page 418.
- impious idem, page 421.
- irreligious idem, page 460.
- irreverent idem, page 460.
- profane idem, page 653.
- sacrilegious idem, page 729.
- sinful idem, page 777.
- unbelieving idem, page 908.
- ungodly idem, page 919.
- unhallowed idem, page 920.
- unholy idem, page 921.
- unrighteous idem, page 930.
- wicked idem, page 978.
- worldly idem, page 990.
- wrong idem, page 994.