Chaste
Bible Usage:
- chaste used 3 times.
- First Reference: 2 Corinthians 11:2
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 3:2
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G53 Used 3 times
CHASTE, adjective
1. Pure from all unlawful commerce of sexes. Applied to persons before marriage, it signifies pure from all sexual commerce, undefiled; applied to married persons, true to the marriage bed.
2. Free from obscenity.
While they behold your chaste conversation. 1 Peter 3:2.
3. In language, pure; genuine; uncorrupt; free from barbarous words and phrases, and from quaint, affected, extravagant expressions.
CHASTE-EYED, adjective Having modest eyes.
CHASTELY, adverb In a chaste manner; without unlawful commerce of sexes; without obscenity; purely; without barbarisms or unnatural phrases.
CHASTEN, verb transitive
1. To correct by punishment; to punish; to inflict pain for the purpose of reclaiming an offender; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
I will chasten him with the rod of men. 2 Samuel 7:14.
2. To afflict by other means.
As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Revelation 3:19.
3. To purify from errors or faults.
CHASTENED, participle passive Corrected; punished; afflicted for correction.
CHASTENER, noun One who punishes, for the purpose of correction.
CHASTENESS, noun Chastity; purity.
CHASTENING, participle present tense Correcting; afflicting for correction.
CHASTENING, noun Correction; punishment for the purpose of reclaiming.
No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous. Hebrews 12:5.
CHASTE-TREE, noun The agnus castus, or vitex; a tree that grows to the highth of eight or ten feet, producing spikes of flowers at the end of every strong shoot in autumn.
Bible Usage:
- chaste used 3 times.
- First Reference: 2 Corinthians 11:2
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 3:2
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G53 Used 3 times