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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Inordinate:

in-or'-di-nat ("ill-regulated," hence, "immoderate," "excessive"; Latin in, "not," ordinatus, "set in order"): Only twice in the King James Version. In each case there is no corresponding adjective in the original, but the word was inserted by the translators as being implied in the noun. It disappears in Revised Version: Eze 23:11, "in her inordinate love" (the Revised Version (British and American) "in her doting"); aghabhah, "lust"; Col 3:5 "inordinate affection" (the Revised Version (British and American) "passion"); pathos, a word which in classical Greek may have either a good or a bad sense (any affection or emotion of the mind), but in the New Testament is used only in a bad sense (passion).

Written by D. Miall Edwards

King James Dictionary

Inordinate: Without Restraint; Immoderate.

These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her INORDINATE love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. (Ezekiel 23:10-11)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Inordinate:

For INORDINATE see AFFECTION, No. 1