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Lewd
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
LEWD. In the AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘lewd’ does not always mean ‘lustful,’ as it does now. That meaning, indeed, is not found in the Apocr. [Note: Apocrypha, Apocryphal.] or NT. There the meaning is simply ‘wicked,’ as Acts 17:5 ‘certain lewd fellows of the baser sort.’ So ‘lewdness’ is usually simply ‘wickedness.’
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Lewd'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/l/lewd.html. 1909.