Greek verb · G1870
ἐπαισχύνομαι
epaischynomaiep-ahee-skhoo'-nom-ahee
be ashamed of
11 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epaischýnomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1870is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1870
to feel shame for something
The King James renders it: be ashamed.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
epaischynomai is rendered "be ashamed of". It stands 11 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Timothy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 8:38If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Mark 8:38ἐπαισχυνθῇ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eleven uses are in 2 Timothy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- will be ashamed of2
- He is ashamed1
- he was ashamed of1
- I am ashamed1
- I am ashamed of1
- is ashamed of1
- may have been ashamed of1
- shall be ashamed of1
- you are ashamed1
- you may be ashamed of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐπαισχύνεται2
- ἐπαισχυνθῇ2
- ἐπαισχυνθήσεται2
- ἐπαισχύνομαι2
- ἐπαισχύνεσθε1
- ἐπαισχύνθη1
- ἐπαισχυνθῇς1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive form, subjunctive · 3rd person singular2V-AOS-3S
- verb · future passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-FOI-3S
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singular2V-PNI-1S
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-PNI-3S
- verb · aorist passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AOI-3S
- verb · aorist passive form, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-AOS-2S
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PNI-2P
Mark
two uses
If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
- ἐπαισχυνθῇepaischuntheaverb · aorist passive form, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: shall be ashamed of
- ἐπαισχυνθήσεταιepaischunthesetaiverb · future passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will be ashamed of
Luke
two uses
If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
- ἐπαισχυνθῇepaischuntheaverb · aorist passive form, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may have been ashamed of
- ἐπαισχυνθήσεταιepaischunthesetaiverb · future passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will be ashamed of
Romans
two uses
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
- ἐπαισχύνομαιepaischunomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I am ashamed of
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
- ἐπαισχύνεσθεepaischunestheverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you are ashamed
2 Timothy
three uses
So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
- ἐπαισχυνθῇςepaischuntheasverb · aorist passive form, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may be ashamed of
For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.
- ἐπαισχύνομαιepaischunomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I am ashamed
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
- ἐπαισχύνθηepaischuntheverb · aorist passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he was ashamed of
Hebrews
two uses
For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
- ἐπαισχύνεταιepaischunetaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He is ashamed
Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
- ἐπαισχύνεταιepaischunetaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is ashamed of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.