Bible Dictionary: Chaste

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.

2. (a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

3. (a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.

4. (a.) Unmarried.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CHASTE; CHASTITY

chast, chas'-ti-ti.

See CRIMES; MARRIAGE.

Greek

53. hagnos -- free from ceremonial defilement, holy, sacred
... defilement, holy, sacred. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: hagnos Phonetic
Spelling: (hag-nos') Short Definition: pure, chaste Definition: (originally ...
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3933. parthenos -- a maiden, a virgin
... a ; a woman who has never had sexual relations; a female (virgin), beyond puberty
but not yet married; (figuratively) when they are pure (chaste), ie faithful ...
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4998. sophron -- of sound mind, self-controlled
... Phonetic Spelling: (so'-frone) Short Definition: self-controlled, temperate Definition:
of sound mind, self-controlled, temperate, sober-minded, modest, chaste ...
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Library

Which is Chaste Love; and How in Some Creatures Such Sensible ...
... HERE BEGINNETH THE FIFTIETH CHAPTER Which is chaste love; and how in some creatures
such sensible comforts be but seldom, and in some right oft. ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the fiftieth chapter.htm

The True and Chaste virgins Few; Chastity a Contest; Thekla
... Discourse XI."Arete. Chapter I."The True and Chaste Virgins Few; Chastity
a Contest; Thekla. Chief of Virgins. I do accept it ...
/.../chapter i the true and chaste.htm

I Send Thee Not, Soul that Art Religiously Chaste...
... Section 38. I send thee not, soul that art religiously chaste� 38. I send
thee not, soul that art religiously chaste, that hast ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/of holy virginity /section 38 i send thee.htm

O Thou who Art Made Priest after Thy Master, the Illustrious after ...
... O thou who art made priest after thy master, the illustrious after the excellent,
the chaste after the grave, the watchful after the abstinent, thy master from ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xviii o thou who.htm

A Difficulty as Regards the Chastity of Unbelievers. None but a ...
... Book I. Chapter 4."A Difficulty as Regards the Chastity of Unbelievers.
None But a Believer is Truly a Chaste Man. What, then, have ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 4 a difficulty as regards.htm

It is not Enough that God Know us to be Chaste: we must Seem So ...
... Book II. Chapter XIII."It is Not Enough that God Know Us to Be Chaste:
We Must Seem So Before Men. Especially in These Times of ...
/.../tertullian/on the apparel of women/chapter xiii it is not enough.htm

Of Lucretia, who Put an End to Her Life Because of the Outrage ...
... We maintain that when a woman is violated while her soul admits no consent to the
iniquity, but remains inviolably chaste, the sin is not hers, but his who ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 19 of lucretia who put.htm

Peter's Speech Continued.
... "The chaste wife doing the will of God, is a good reminiscence of His first
creation; for God, being one, created one woman for one man. ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter xv peters speech continued.htm

Peter's Speech Continued.
... "The chaste woman is adorned with the Son of God as with a bridegroom. She is clothed
with holy light. ... She wears about her precious pearls, even chaste words. ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter xvi peters speech continued.htm

Peter's Speech Continued.
... Chapter XVIII."Peter's Speech Continued. "Much better is it if you will take her
by the hand and come, in order that you yourself may become chaste; for you ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter xviii peters speech continued.htm

Thesaurus

Chaste (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or
indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes. ...
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Chastity
... 1. (n.) Sexual or moral purity; celibacy; the state of being chaste; purity of body;
freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. 2. (n.) Purity. ...CHASTE; CHASTITY. ...
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Virgin (62 Occurrences)
... 6. (a.) Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin;
maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush. ...
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Beholding (45 Occurrences)
... are so rendered in English Versions of the Bible, but epopteusantes, "your good
works, which they behold" (1 Peter 2:12); "beholding your chaste behavior" (1 ...
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Chasten (16 Occurrences)

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Virtuous (5 Occurrences)
... virtuous action. 5. (a.) Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.
Multi-Version Concordance Virtuous (5 Occurrences). Ruth 3 ...
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Keepers (78 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their
own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. (KJV WBS YLT). ...
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Jezebel (20 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians,
and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). ...
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Workers (76 Occurrences)
... Titus 2:5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection
to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed. (WEB ASV NAS). ...
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Espoused (7 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused
you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. ...
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Bible Concordance

Chaste (4 Occurrences)

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
(KJV DBY WBS)

Titus 2:5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV)

1 Peter 3:2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
(KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Revelation 14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
(See NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Chaste

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Chastity

Virgin (62 Occurrences)

Beholding (45 Occurrences)

Chasten (16 Occurrences)

Virtuous (5 Occurrences)

Keepers (78 Occurrences)

Jezebel (20 Occurrences)

Workers (76 Occurrences)

Espoused (7 Occurrences)