Lexical Summary
asótia: Dissipation, debauchery, profligacy, reckless living
Original Word: ἀσωτία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: asótia
Pronunciation: ah-so-TEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (as-o-tee'-ah)
KJV: excess, riot
NASB: dissipation
Word Origin: [from a compound of G1 (α - Alpha) (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G4982 (σώζω - saved)]
1. (properly) unsavedness
2. (by implication) profligacy
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
excess, debauchery
From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of sozo; properly, unsavedness, i.e. (by implication) profligacy -- excess, riot.
see GREEK a
see GREEK sozo
HELPS Word-studies
810 asōtía (from 1 /A "without" and 4982 /sṓzō, "save") – properly, what can't be saved (waste); (figuratively) prodigality, spiritual wastefulness due to excessive behavior and the dire consequences it brings.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
alpha (as a neg. prefix) and
sózóDefinitionunsavedness, i.e. wastefulness
NASB Translationdissipation (3).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 810: ἀσωτίαἀσωτία,
ἀσωτίας,
ἡ (the character of an
ἄσωτος, i. e. of an abandoned man, one that cannot be saved, from
σαόω,
σόω equivalent to
σῴζω (
ἄσωτος,
Curtius, § 570); hence, properly,
incorrigibleness),
an abandoned, dissolute, life; profligacy, prodigality (
R. V. riot]:
Ephesians 5:18;
Titus 1:6;
1 Peter 4:4; (
Proverbs 28:7; 2 Macc. 6:4.
Plato, rep. 8, p. 560 e.;
Aristotle, eth. Nic. 4, 1, 5 (3), p. 1120{a}, 3;
Polybius 32, 20, 9; 40, 12, 7; cf.
Cicero, Tusc. 3, 8;
Herodian, 2, 5, 2 (1, Bekker edition), and elsewhere). Cf. Tittmann i., p. 152f; (
Trench, § xvi.).
