UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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μοιχάω

MainId: 003334000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: True

AlphaPos: μ

StrongCodes: G3429

AlternateLemmas: μοιχάομαι

BaseForms:

BaseFormID: 003334001000000
PartsOfSpeech: verb
RelatedLemmas: [{'Word': 'μοιχαλίς', 'Meanings': []}, {'Word': 'μοιχεία', 'Meanings': []}, {'Word': 'μοιχεύω', 'Meanings': []}, {'Word': 'μοιχός', 'Meanings': []}]
LEXMeanings:
1. LEXID: 003334001001000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: M
  LEXEntryCode: 88.276
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior
  LEXSubDomains: Sexual Misbehavior
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-12-09 13:49:24
    DefinitionShort: sexual intercourse of a man with a married woman other than his own spouse
    Glosses: ['to commit adultery', 'adultery']
    Comments: From the standpoint of the NT, adultery was normally defined in terms of the married status of the woman involved in any such act. In other words, sexual intercourse of a married man with an unmarried woman would usually be regarded as {L:πορνεία} ‘fornication’ ({D:88.271}), but sexual intercourse of either an unmarried or a married man with someone else’s wife was regarded as adultery, both on the part of the man as well as the woman. In view of the married status of the woman being the determining factor in μοιχάω, {L:μοιχεύω}, μοιχάομαι, {L:μοιχεία}, and related terms ({D:88.277}-{D:88.278}), there is a significant contrast with {L:πορνεύω} and related expressions ({D:88.271}). {L:πορνεύω}, however, may be regarded as more generic in meaning, and thus in certain contexts including adultery.|{S:04000503200046} is usually rendered as ‘anyone who divorces his wife for any cause other than fornication makes her guilty of committing adultery,’ presumably on the implication that she would marry someone else, as is implied in the final clause of the verse.
  LEXReferences: MAT 5:32, MAT 19:9, MARK 10:11, MARK 10:12