Thayer's
STRONGS NT 766: ἀσέλγειαἀσέλγεια,
ἀσελγειας,
ἡ, the conduct and character of one who is
ἀσελγής (a word which some suppose to be compounded of the alpha privative and
Σελγη, the name of a city in Pisidia whose citizens excelled in strictness of morals (so
Etym. Magn. 152, 38; per contra cf.
Suidas 603 d.): others of
ἆ intens. and
σαλάγειν, to disturb, raise a din; others, and now the majority, of alpha privative and
σέλγω equivalent to
θέλγω, not affecting pleasantly, exciting disgust), "unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence":
Mark 7:22 (where it is uncertain what particular vice is spoken of); of gluttony and venery,
Jude 1:4; plural,
1 Peter 4:3;
2 Peter 2:2 (for
Rec. ἀπωλείαις), 18; of carnality,
lasciviousness:
2 Corinthians 12:21;
Galatians 5:19;
Ephesians 4:19;
2 Peter 2:7; plural "wanton (acts or) manners, as filthy words, indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of males and females, etc." (Fritzsche),
Romans 13:13. (In Biblical Greek besides only in Wis. 14:26 and 3Macc. 2:26. Among Greek writings used by
Plato,
Isocrates and following; at length by
Plutarch (Lucull. 38) and
Lucian (dial. meretr. 6) of the wantonness of women (
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 184 n.).) Cf. Tittmann i., p. 151f; (especially
Trench, § xvi.).