The corpus record

ἀσεβ-ής

asebes

ungodly, unholy, profane, sacrilegious

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Where it lives

Proverbia 85 · 76.51/10k
Jude 3 · 67.42/10k
Job 37 · 27.74/10k
2 Peter 3 · 27.7/10k
Habacuc 3 · 27.42/10k
Ecclesiastes 10 · 22.1/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 15 · 21.73/10k
Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
Siracides 15 · 8.13/10k
Odae 3 · 7.38/10k
1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀσεβ-ής · aseb-ēs — LSJ

ungodly, unholy, profane, sacrilegious, against

ungodly, unholy, profane, sacrilegious, opp. εὐσεβής, Pi. Fr. 132.1, A. Supp. 9 (anap.); τὸν ἀσεβῆ, of Oedipus, S. OT 1382, 1441; σκοπῶν τί ἀ. X. Mem. 1.1.16: c. gen., θεῶν ἀσεβής against them, Paus. 4.8.1; ἀσεβέστεροι περὶ θεούς X. Cyr. 8.8.27; πρὸς ἀλλοτρίους J. BJ 5.10.5. Adv. -βῶς, Sup. -έστατα D.C. 79.9.

In the wild

ἀσεβεῖ · asebei Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1492–1493
ἀσεβεῖ · asebei Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1516–1517
ἀσεβεῖ · asebei Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 831–832
ἀσεβῆ · asebē Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 4–10
ἀσεβεῖς · asebeis Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1122a (DIORISIS sentence 1188)
τἀσεβεῖ · tasebei Aristotle, Rhetoric 1

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Where it came from

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