HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5040
נַבְלוּת
nav.lut — lewdness
immodesty, shamelessness, lewdness, pudenda (of female)
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Lewdness
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G4468
ῥᾳδιουργία
rhadiourgia — trickery
ῥᾳδιουργία, -ας, ἡ (see: ῥᾳδιούργημα), 1. ease in doing, facility (Xen.). 2. easiness, laziness (Xen.). 3. recklessness, wickedness (of lewdness, Xen.; fraud, Plut.; in π., of theft, MM, xxii): Act.13:10.† (AS)
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σπατάλη
spatalē — bracelet
lewdness, wantonness, riot, luxury , [variant datesAnthology Palantina (ML)
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(Acts 18:14), villany or wickedness, not lewdness in the modern sense of the word. The word “lewd” is from the Saxon, and means properly “ignorant,” “unlearned,” and hence low, vicious (Acts 17:5).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.