- μοιχάω
- μοιχάω (X. et al.: JWackernagel, Hellenistica 1907, 7ff; B-D-F §101 p. 46f) ‘cause to commit adultery’, in our lit. (as well as LXX; PsSol 8:10) only pass.① be caused to commit adultery, be an adulterer/adulteress, commit adulteryⓐ of a woman (Ezk 16:32) ποιεῖ αὐτὴν μοιχᾶσθαι (the man who divorces his wife) causes her to commit adultery (if she contracts a new marriage) Mt 5:32a v.l. αὐτὴ μοιχᾶται she commits adultery Mk 10:12. But alsoⓑ of a man (PsSol 8, 10), who marries a divorced woman Mt 5:32b; 19:9 v.l. or who marries again after divorcing his wife 19:9; Hm 4, 1, 6. μοιχᾶται ἐπʼ αὐτήν commits adultery against her (his first wife) Mk 10:11 (NTurner, Bible Translator 7, ’56, 151f: associates w. Jer 5:9); if understood as a Semitism (Rehkopf §233, 2 note 4; s. BSchaller, in Festschr. JJeremias, ’70, 239ff: in Aramaic the corresponding verb w. prep. is used in the sense of ‘with’, not ‘against’), this phrase can be rendered commits adultery with her (the second wife).ⓒ of a man or woman 2 Cl 4:3.② be guilty of infidelity in a transcendent relationship, be unfaithful, ὸ̔ς ἂν τὰ ὁμοιώματα ποιῇ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, μοιχᾶται whoever acts as the gentiles do (i.e. polytheists with their image-worship:NBrox, Der Hirt des Hermas ’91, 208), commits adultery (and it cannot be expected of the other marriage-partner to maintain marital relations) Hm 4, 1, 9.—DELG s.v. μοιχός. M-M. s.v. μοιχάομαι. TW.
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