Bible Dictionary: Wantonness

◄ Wantonness ►

Jump to: Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Greek • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Lack of restraint; recklessness; lasciviousness.

Greek

766. aselgeia -- licentiousness, wantonness
... licentiousness, wantonness. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aselgeia
Phonetic Spelling: (as-elg'-ia) Short Definition: wantonness, lewdness ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/766.htm - 7k

5196. hubris -- wantonness, insolence, an act of wanton violence
... wantonness, insolence, an act of wanton violence. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: hubris Phonetic Spelling: (hoo'-bris) Short Definition: insult ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5196.htm - 7k

810. asotia -- unsavedness, ie wastefulness
... ie wastefulness. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: asotia Phonetic
Spelling: (as-o-tee'-ah) Short Definition: wantonness, profligacy Definition ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/810.htm - 7k

4764. strenos -- insolent luxury
... insolent luxury. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: strenos Phonetic
Spelling: (stray'-nos) Short Definition: wantonness, luxury Definition ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4764.htm - 6k

Strong's Hebrew

8586. taalulim -- wantonness, caprice
... 8585b, 8586. taalulim. 8587 . wantonness, caprice. Transliteration: taalulim
Phonetic Spelling: (tah-al-ool') Short Definition: children. ...
/hebrew/8586.htm - 6k

6349. pachaz -- wantonness, recklessness
... 6348, 6349. pachaz. 6350 . wantonness, recklessness. Transliteration: pachaz
Phonetic Spelling: (pakh'-az) Short Definition: uncontrolled. ...
/hebrew/6349.htm - 6k

5949. alilah -- wantonness, a deed
... 5948, 5949. alilah or alilah. 5950 . wantonness, a deed. Transliteration: alilah
or alilah Phonetic Spelling: (al-ee-law') Short Definition: deeds. ...
/hebrew/5949.htm - 6k

Library

Others of Your Writers, in their Wantonness, Even Minister to Your ...
... Chapter XV. Others of your writers, in their wantonness, even minister
to your pleasures by vilifying the� Others of your writers ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/apology/chapter xv others of your.htm

The Conduct of Heretics: Its Frivolity, Worldliness, and ...
... Heretics. Chapter XLI."The Conduct of Heretics: Its Frivolity, Worldliness,
and Irregularity The Notorious Wantonness of Their Women. ...
/.../the prescription against heretics/chapter xli the conduct of heretics .htm

Easter Sunday
... saved them from it by this epistle admonishing and urging them to purge out the
leaven of license; for they had begun to practice great wantonness, and had ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle sermons vol ii/easter sunday.htm

The Epistle of Saint Jude.
... Who are godless, and turn the grace of God into wantonness. That Gospel
which is given us concerning the grace of God, and which ...
/.../the epistle of saint jude.htm

On a Holy Martyr's Day
... Now mark, it is to be counted as spiritual unchastity or wantonness, when a man
seeks himself too much, and with eager desire strives after warmth and sensible ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tauler/the inner way/sermon xxxi on a holy.htm

Sermon on a Martyr's Day
... Now mark: it is to be counted as spiritual unchastity or wantonness, when a man
seeks himself too much, and with eager desire strives after warmth and sensible ...
/.../xxvii sermon on a martyrs.htm

That a True Lover Despises Worldly Things and Desires Heavenly ...
... Truly if the sweetness of endless love be now biding in thy soul, withouten doubt
it destroys all wantonness of fleshly wickedness; and delighting thee in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xxviii that a true.htm

Letter xxii. (AD 392. )
... The words of the chosen vessel are these: "Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying: but put ye on the Lord ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter xxii a d 392.htm

Of the Sheepskin and the Goatskin.
... deserts, and in mountains, and in dens, and in caves of the earth." [659] And this
garment of goatskin signifies that having destroyed all wantonness of carnal ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter vii of the sheepskin.htm

That the Mind is not Intoxicated by Wine Alone.
... The belly when filled with all kinds of food gives birth to seeds of wantonness,
nor can the mind, when choked with the weight of food, keep the guidance and ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter vi that the mind.htm

Thesaurus

Wantonness (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Lack of restraint; recklessness; lasciviousness.
Multi-Version Concordance Wantonness (6 Occurrences). ...
/w/wantonness.htm - 8k

Lasciviousness (9 Occurrences)
... la-siv'-i-us-nes (aselgeia, "licentiousness," "wantonness," "unbridled lust,"
"shamelessness," "outrageousness"): 1. Sources: Etymologists assign three ...
/l/lasciviousness.htm - 11k

Wanton (20 Occurrences)
... lasciviously. 10. (vt) To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.
Multi-Version Concordance Wanton (20 Occurrences). ...
/w/wanton.htm - 13k

Chambering (1 Occurrence)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary (Romans 13:13), wantonness, impurity. Noah Webster's
Dictionary. 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chamber. 2. (n.) Lewdness. Int. ...
/c/chambering.htm - 7k

Wantonly (8 Occurrences)

/w/wantonly.htm - 9k

Wants (49 Occurrences)

/w/wants.htm - 20k

Vanity (100 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through
the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean ...
/v/vanity.htm - 39k

Vileness (5 Occurrences)
... their young men, neither shall He have compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for every one is ungodly and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh wantonness...
/v/vileness.htm - 8k

Folly (68 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
4. (n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise. Int. ...
/f/folly.htm - 39k

Bible Concordance

Wantonness (6 Occurrences)

2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
(KJV WBS)

Genesis 49:6 My soul, come not into their council; Mine honour, be not united with their assembly; For in their anger they slew men, And in their wantonness houghed oxen.
(DBY RSV)

Judges 20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
(See JPS DBY RSV)

Judges 20:10 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
(See JPS)

Jeremiah 23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.
(See JPS)

Subtopics

Wantonness

Related Terms

Lasciviousness (9 Occurrences)

Wanton (20 Occurrences)

Chambering (1 Occurrence)

Wantonly (8 Occurrences)

Wants (49 Occurrences)

Vanity (100 Occurrences)

Vileness (5 Occurrences)

Folly (68 Occurrences)

Revelling (1 Occurrence)