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Strong's #153: aischunomai (pronounced ahee-skhoo'-nom-ahee)

from aischos (disfigurement, i.e. disgrace); to feel shame (for oneself):--be ashamed.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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aischunomai

1) to disfigure

2) to dishonour

3) to suffuse with shame, make ashamed, be ashamed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from aischos (disfigurement, i.e. disgrace)

Citing in TDNT: 1:189, 29




Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Luke 16:3: "I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed."
2 Corinthians 10:8: "for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:"
Philippians 1:20: "that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness,"
1 Peter 4:16: "any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on"
1 John 2:28: "confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his"









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