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Saqar is used only in Isaiah 3:16 and it means flirtatious.  wanton eyes: flirtatious eyes

3:16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and flirtatious [wanton] eyes, walking and skipping [02952 taphaph] as they go, and making the noise of jingling ornaments with their feet:


08265 רקשׂ saqar saw-kar'
a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 2283}
AV-wanton 1; 1
1) (Piel) to ogle, be wanton
1a) ogling (participle)

Katastreniao appears only once in 1 Timothy 5:11. It means to feel the impulses of sexual desire.

1 Timothy 5:11 But the younger widows deny: for they might begin to feel impulses of sexual desire more than for [2691 wanton] Christ and want to marry;

2691 καταστρηνιαω katastreniao kat-as-tray-nee-ah'-o
from 2596 and 4763; TDNT-3:631,420; v
AV-begin to wax wanton against 1; 1
1) to feel the impulses of sexual desire

Spatalao appears twice, one in James 5:5 as wanton and once in 1 Timothy 5:6.  It means devoted to sensual pleasures.

James 5:5 you have lived in pleasure on the earth, and devoted yourselves to sensual pleasures [4684 wanton]; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

1 Timothy 5:6 But she that lives devoted to sensual pleasures [4684 wanton]; is dead while she lives.

4684 σπαταλαω spatalao spat-al-ah'-o
from spatale (luxury);; v
AV-live in pleasure 1, be wanton 1; 2
1) to live luxuriously, lead a voluptuous (devoted to sensual pleasures) life, (give one's self to pleasure)

Aselgeia appears eight times in the New Testament, twice as wantonness, once as filthy, and six times as lasciviousness.  It means having sexual emotions that are out of control leading to inappropriate thoughts, words, and actions.  This is what lasciviousness and licentiousness actually is.

766 ασελγεια aselgeia as-elg'-i-a

from a compound of 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed selges (of uncertain derivation, but apparently meaning continent); TDNT-1:490,83; n f
AV-lasciviousness 6, wantonness 2, filthy 1; 9
1) unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence


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