SINFUL WORD DESCRIPTION AND MEANINGS

I recently did a study on some words often used to describe sin or sinful actions. As you read through these think about our nation and churches. You'll see some amazing similarities. I also found it interesting that the words witchcraft and sorcery correspond to pharmakeia, the word we get Pharmacy from. This of course relates to the use of drugs in our society. We often forget that drugs were used in ancient times to put people into trances. 

Just read the words and relate them to scripture and our current times.

Uncleanness = Strong’s 167 Gr. akatharsia = impurity, a state of moral filthiness, especially in relation to sexual sin, many                                                   references in the N.T. epistles.

Lasciviousness = Strong’s 766 Gr. aselgeia = debauchery, sensuality, lewdness, wantonness, filthy. As used in epistles.

Filthiness = Strong’s 3436 Gr. Molymos = contamination, defilement, filthiness. As used in epistles.

Fornication = Strong’s 4202/4203 Gr. porneia/porneuo = sexual immorality, marital unfaithfulness, prostitution, adultery, a generic term for sexual sin of any kind. As used in epistles.

Witchcraft = Strong’s 5331 Gr. pharmakeia Gr. = witchcraft, magic, the use of spells and potions of magic, often involving drugs: sorceries. Also see: 5332 = pharmakeus = one who practices magical arts, magician:-sorcerers.

                                                5333 = pharmakos = one who practices magical arts: sorcerers

Emulations = Strong’s 2205 Gr. zelos = an attitude of emotion of deep, earnest concern: jealousy, envy, rage, morally corrupt zealous ill will. Galatians 5.20

Variance = Strong’s 2054 Gr. eris = quarrel, strife, dissention, discord…Galatians 5.20

Seditions = Strong’s 1370 Gr. dichostasia = division, dissention, divisions, sedition

Revellings = Strong’s 2970 Gr. komos = orgy, revelry, carousing, rioting

Eyeservice = Strong’s 3787 Gr. ophthalmodoulia = service performed to attract attention: eyeservice

Perdition = Strong’s 684 Gr. apoleia = destruction, ruin, waste: damnable, pernicious ways

Concupiscence = Strong’s 1939 Gr. epithymia = desire, coveting, craving, lusting in context of immoral or sinful, lust after

Unruly = Strong’s 183 Gr. akataschetos = uncontrollable…1 Thess 5.14…506 Gr. anypotaktos = rebellious, disobedient, not made subject to, independent, unruly…Titus 1.6, 10…813 Gr. ataktos = idle, lazy; unruly…James 3.8

Striker = Strong’s 4131 Gr. plektes = violent man, bully—striker

Lucre = Strong’s 146 Gr. aischrokerdes = pursuing dishonest gain: greedy of filthy lucre, given to filthy lucre, greediness for money

Brawler = Strong’s 269 Gr. amachos = peaceable, not quarrelsome, without conflict…1 Timothy 3.3

Double tongued = Strong’s 1351 Gr. dilogos = insincere, double-tongued

Abomination = Strong’s 8441 Heb. toeba = detestable thing, loathsome thing, abomination

                                            8251 Heb. in Daniel = siqqus = detestable thing, vileness, abomination, abominable filth or idol

                                            8263 Heb. as used in Leviticus = seqes = detestable thing, abomination

                          = Strong’s  946 Gr. = bdelygma = abomination, something destestable

Desolation = Strong’s 2049 Gr. Matt 12.25 = eremoo = to be brought to ruin, laid waste, come to nought, desolate

                     = Strong’s 2050 Gr. Matt 24.15; Mk 13.14; Luke 21.20 = desolation, devastation, destruction. “The Abomination of Desolation is a Hebrew term formally, “the detestable thing of desolation.” This abomination is a person, thing, or event that defiles a holy place and thus causes it to be abandoned, implying that God detests this thing or action. Strong’s comment.                                                                                                                                                                   

                     = Hebrew 8074 in Daniel = samem = to be desolate, be appalled, to lie desolate, laid waste, astonished