Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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Adultery
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Revelation 2:22
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
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7 occurrences in 5 verses.
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נָאַף
nâʼaph · naw-af'
17 times translated as this KJV form31 total Strong's occurrences
to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize
Strong's KJV usage: adulterer(-ess), commit(-ing) adultery, woman that breaketh wedlock.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 20:14Strong's last: Hosea 4:14
Open full H5003 profile →μοιχεύω
moicheúō · moy-khyoo'-o
14 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to commit adultery
Strong's KJV usage: :--commit adultery.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:27Strong's last: Revelation 2:22
Open full G3431 profile →μοιχάω
moicháō · moy-khah'-o
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
(middle voice) to commit adultery
Strong's KJV usage: :--commit adultery.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:32Strong's last: Mark 10:12
Open full G3429 profile →μοιχεία
moicheía · moy-khi'-ah
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
adultery
Strong's KJV usage: :--adultery.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 8:3Strong's last: Galatians 5:19
Open full G3430 profile →μοιχαλίς
moichalís · moy-khal-is'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
an adulteress (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--adulteress(-ous, -y).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:14Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:14
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H5003
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
H5003
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
H5003
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
H5003
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
H5003
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
H5003
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
H5003
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
H5003
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
H5003
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
H5003
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
H5003
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
H5003
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
H5003
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
H5003
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
H5003
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
H5003
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
H5003
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
G3431
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
G3431
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
G3429
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
G3429
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
G3429
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
G3429
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
G3431
He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
G3429
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
English meaning and historical usage.
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adultery
ADUL'TERY, noun [Latin adulterium. See Adulterate.]
1. Violation of the marriage bed; a crime, or a civil injury, which introduces, or may introduce, into a family, a spurious offspring.
By the laws of Connecticut, the sexual intercourse of any man, with a married woman, is the crime of adultery in both:such intercourse of a married man, with an unmarried woman, is fornication in both, and adultery of the man, within the meaning of the law respecting divorce; but not a felonious adultery in either, or the crime of adultery at common law, or by statute. This latter offense is, in England, proceeded with only in the ecclesiastical courts.
In common usage, adultery means the unfaithfulness of any married person to the marriage bed. In England, Parliament grant absolute divorces for infidelity to the marriage bed in either party; and the spiritual courts divorce a mensa et thoro.
2. In a scriptural sense, all manner of lewdness or unchastity, as in the seventh commandment.
3. In scripture, idolatry, or apostasy from the true God. Jeremiah 3:8.
4. In old laws, the fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery
5. In ecclesiastical affairs, the intrusion of a person into a bishopric, during the life of the bishop.
6. Among ancient naturalists, the grafting of trees was called adultery being considered as an unnatural union.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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