Original Word: ἀναίδεια, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: anaideia
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ah'-ee-die-ah')
Definition: shamelessness
Usage: shamelessness, shameless persistence (e.g. in greed).

335 anaídeia (from 1 /A "without" and 127 /aidṓs, "shame") – properly, "shameless persistence" (Souter). 335 (anaídeia), used only in Lk 11:8, is literally "shamelessness" and relates to carrying out God's plan with "unembarassed boldness" – in the dignity of faith.

335 /anaídeia ("no shame, without embarrassment") is the shamelessness a faith-led believer has who is not be halted by human fears – even when others cry "overdone" (i.e. accuse them of being extreme or excessive).

Lk 11:8: "I tell you, if even he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shamelessness (335 /anaídeia) he will get up and give him as much as he needs."

Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and aidós
Definition
shamelessness
NASB Translation
persistence (1).

STRONGS NT 335: ἀναίδεια

ἀναίδεια (T WH ἀναιδία; see I, i), (ας, ἡ, (ἀναιδής, and this from ἡ αἰδώς a sense of shame); from Homer down; shamelessness, impudence: Luke 11:8 (of an importunate man, persisting in his eritreaties; (A. V. importunity)).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

importunity, shamelessness.

From a compound of a (as a negative particle (compare aneu)) and aidos; impudence, i.e. (by implication) importunity -- importunity.

see GREEK a

see GREEK aneu

see GREEK aidos

Forms and Transliterations

αναιδεί αναίδειαν ἀναίδειαν αναιδείς αναιδές αναιδή αναιδής αναιδιαν ἀναιδίαν αναιδώς anaideian anaídeian

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