Moicheia means “adultery” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3430 — yishbobenob in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3430 μοιχεία (moicheia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. moicheia (moy-khei'-ah) n. 1. adultery [from G3431] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include adultery. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
moicheia (moy-khei'-ah) n. 1. adultery [from G3431] KJV: adultery Root(s): G3431
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3430. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
adultery
Usage: μοιχεία, -ας, ἡ (μοιχύω), [rn LXX: Hos.2:2 (נַאֲפוּף), Hos.4:2 (נָאַף), Jer.13:27 (נִאֻף), Wis.14:26 * ;] adultery: Jhn.8:3; pl. (see WM, 220; Bl., § 32, 6), Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21,† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render moicheia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3430 (μοιχεία) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:
Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Disquieting of good men, forgetfulness of good turns, Defiling of souls, changing of kind, Disorder in marriages, adultery, and shameless uncleanness.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3430.
thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:
Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Disquieting of good men, forgetfulness of good turns, Defiling of souls, changing of kind, Disorder in marriages, adultery, and shameless uncleanness.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3430, grouped by book.
Moicheia (Strong's G3430) is a Greek word most simply glossed "adultery". moicheia (moy-khei'-ah) n. 1. adultery [from G3431]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G3430 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3430 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as adultery. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3430, with linked reader references where each row is available.