Definition

shameful, i.e. base (specially, venal)

Etymology

from the same as G153 (αἰσχύνομαι);

Word family

• αἰσχύνομαι aischýnomai

How the KJV renders it

• filthy

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.