Strong's Greek: 1870. ἐπαισχύνομαι (epaischunomai) -- to be ashamed (of)

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epaischunomai: to be ashamed (of)

Original Word: ἐπαισχύνομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epaischunomai
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ahee-skhoo'-nom-ahee)
Short Definition: I am ashamed
Definition: I am ashamed, am ashamed of.

HELPS word-Studies

1870 epaisxýnomai (from epi, "on, fitting" intensifying 153/aisxynō, "disgrace") – properly, disgraced, like someone "singled out" because they misplaced their confidence or support ("believed the big lie"); to be ashamed (personally humiliated).

In sum, 1870/epaisxynomai ("dishonor") refers to being disgraced, bringing on "fitting" shame that matches the error of wrongly identifying (aligning) with something.

[The prefix (epi) underlines specific (personal) nature of the disgrace.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from epi and aischunó
Definition
to be ashamed (of)
NASB Translation
am...ashamed (2), ashamed (9).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 1870: ἐπαισχύνομαι

ἐπαισχύνομαι; future ἐπαισχυνθήσομαι; 1 aorist ἐπησχυνθην, and with neglect of augment ἐπαισχυνθην (2 Timothy 1:16 L T Tr WH; cf. (WHs Appendix, p. 161); Buttmann, 34 (30); (Winers Grammar, § 12 at the end)); from Aeschylus down; to be ashamed (ἐπί on account of (cf. Isaiah 1:29 Alex.; Ellicott on 2 Timothy 1:8); see αἰσχύνω): absolutely, 2 Timothy 1:12; τινα (on the accusative, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 32, 1 b. α.; Buttmann, 192 (166)), of a person, Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; τί, of a thing, Romans 1:16; 2 Timothy 1:8, 16; ἐπί τίνι, the dative of a thing, Romans 6:21; followed by the infinitive Hebrews 2:11; with the accusative of a person and the infinitive of a thing, Hebrews 11:16. (Twice in the Sept.: Isaiah 1:29 (Alex.); Job 34:19.)

Strong's

be ashamed.

From epi and aischunomai; to feel shame for something -- be ashamed.

see GREEK epi

see GREEK aischunomai