Lexicon athesmos: lawless Original Word: ἄθεσμος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: athesmos Phonetic Spelling: (ath'-es-mos) Short Definition: lawless Definition: lawless, unrestrained, licentious. HELPS word-Studies 113 áthesmos (from 1 /A "not" and 5087 /títhēmi, "set in place") – properly, not in acceptable order ("out of place"). [In ancient secular Greek, 114 (athetéō) referred to what was "illegal (contrary to statute)," as in Plutarch (1:712b; cf. TDNT 1:167).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and thesmos (law, custom) Definitionlawless NASB Translationunprincipled men (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 113: ἄθεσμοςἄθεσμος, ( θεσμός), lawless ( A. V. wicked); of one who breaks through the restraints of law and gratifies his lusts: 2 Peter 2:7; 2 Peter 3:17. (the Sept., Diodorus, Philo, Josephus, Plutarch.)
Strong's lawless, wicked. From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of tithemi (in the sense of enacting); lawless, i.e. (by implication) criminal -- wicked. see GREEK a see GREEK tithemi |
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