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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(ad-to and alter, other). Under
Hebrew
law
the crime of unchastity, wherein a
man
, married or single, had illicit intercourse with a married or betrothed
woman
, not his wife. Punished with
fire
(
Gen. 38:24
24
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. (Genesis 38:24)
); by
stoning
(
Deut. 22:22-24
22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 22:22‑24)
). In a
spiritual
sense,
apostasy
.
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This
was forbidden in
the
ten
commandments; but neither
there
nor anywhere else is the
sin
defined. It seems clear, that as far as the
man
was concerned, if he had intercourse
with
a
woman
unless it was with a married woman, he would not be charged with adultery, though he himself
might
be married; indeed how could he be when he was allowed more wives than one, as well as
concubines
and
slaves
? If he committed adultery with a married woman or with one betrothed, both were to be
put
to
death
(
Deut. 22:22-24
22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. (Deuteronomy 22:22‑24)
). With the woman it was stricter, she must
have
no intercourse with any man but her
husband
. If a man was jealous of his wife there was the ordeal of the
bitter
waters
provided to test her innocence (
Num. 5:11-31
11
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
12
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
13
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
14
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
15
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:
17
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
18
And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
20
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
21
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
22
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
23
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
24
And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
25
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:
26
And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
27
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
28
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
29
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
30
Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
31
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity. (Numbers 5:11‑31)
). But we do not read that any man or woman was stoned
for
adultery, nor that any woman drank the bitter waters. We know from the
New
Testament
that
Moses
had, because of the hardness of their hearts, allowed a
certain
looseness, and a man could
divorce
his wife for any cause, which was easier than bringing a suspected wife to trial. It may be that the men themselves had not good consciences, like those who brought the adulterous woman to the
Lord
in
John 8:3
3
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, (John 8:3)
. We
have a
dreadful
picture
of guiltiness in Judges 19, and
Jeremiah
charges
Israel
with being “as fed horses in the morning, every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife,” which loudly called for
judgment
(
Jer. 5:8; 13:27
8
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. (Jeremiah 5:8)
27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? (Jeremiah 13:27)
). The Lord declared that a man morally committed adultery (or
fornication
) in his
heart
if he lusted after a woman. Adultery had
also
a typical meaning. Israel had been espoused to
Jehovah
, but instead of being a
faithful
wife she had sought
other
lovers. “With their
idols
have
they
committed adultery” (
Ezek. 23:37
37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. (Ezekiel 23:37)
). So the false
church
, who has
Jezebel
in her midst, the Lord will
cast
her “and them that
commit
adultery with her into
great
tribulation
, except they
repent
of their deeds” (
Rev. 2:22
22
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. (Revelation 2:22)
).
Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:
Number:
3431
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Greek:
μοιχεύω
Transliteration:
moicheuo
Phonic:
moy-khyoo’-o
Meaning:
from
3432
; to commit adultery
KJV Usage:
commit adultery
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