Moicheuo means “commit adultery” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3431 — yishbach (“Ishbah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3431 μοιχεύω (moicheuo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. moicheuo (moy-khyoo'-o) v. 1. to commit adultery [from G3432] It has 20 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include commit and adultery. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
moicheuo (moy-khyoo'-o) v. 1. to commit adultery [from G3432] KJV: commit adultery Root(s): G3432
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to commit adultery
Usage: μοιχεύω (μοιχός), [in LXX: Exo.20:13, Lev.20:10, al. (נָאַף) ;] to commit adultery: absol., Mat.5:27 19:18, Mrk.10:19, Luk.16:18 18:20, Rom.2:22 13:9, Jas.2:11; with accusative fem., Mat.5:28. Pass., of the woman, Mat.5:32 19:9 WH, mg.), Jhn.8:4. Metaphorical, of idolatry (see: μιοιχαλίς, and cf. Jer.3:9, a1.), before μετ᾽ αὐτῆς, Rev.2:22.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render moicheuo, 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.
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Strong's G3431 (μοιχεύω) appears 12 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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11 indexed usages in New Testament.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
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,
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbor, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.
Thou shalt not commit murder.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; And secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; And thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, And brought children by another man.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3431.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbor, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.
Thou shalt not commit murder.
And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring after the manner of a harlot?
They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.
And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.
They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
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,
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; And secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; And thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, And brought children by another man.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3431, grouped by book.
Moicheuo (Strong's G3431) is a Greek word most simply glossed "commit adultery". moicheuo (moy-khyoo'-o) v. 1. to commit adultery [from G3432]
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's G3431 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3431 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 commit and adultery. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3431, with linked reader references where each row is available.