αἰσχύνω

αἰσχύνομαι — aischýnomai

αἰσχύνω: (αἶσχος (cf. αἰσχρός));

1. to disfigure: πρόσωπον, Homer, Iliad 18, 24, and many others.

2. to dishonor: the Sept. Pro 29:15.

3. to suffuse with shame, make ashamed: Sir 13:7. In the N. T. only passive, αἰσχύνομαι; future αἰσχυνθήσομαι; 1 aorist ᾐσχύνθην; to be suffused with shame, be made ashamed, be ashamed: 2Co 10:8; Php 1:20; 1Pe 4:16; μή αἰσχυνθῶμεν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ that we may not in shame shrink from him, 1Jn 2:28 (Sir 21:22 αἰσχυνθήσεται ἀπό προσώπου (Isa 1:29; Jer 12:13; cf. Buttmann, § 147, 2)); followed by an infinitive (on which see Winer's Grammar, 346 (325)), Luk 16:3. (Compare: ἐπαισχύνω (ἐπαισχύνομαι, καταισχύνω.)