858. aphelotés
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aphelotés: simplicity
Original Word: ἀφελότης, τητος, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: aphelotés
Phonetic Spelling: (af-el-ot'-ace)
Short Definition: simplicity, sincerity
Definition: simplicity, sincerity.

HELPS word-Studies

858 aphelótēs (derived from 1 /A "not" and phelleus, "stony ground") – properly, without rocks (the opposite of phelleus, "rocky land"), i.e. smoothness (a level plain); (figuratively) what is uncomplicated and unencumbered, i.e. without hindrances or stumbling blocks (J. Thayer).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from aphelés (without a stone, even, smooth)
Definition
simplicity
NASB Translation
sincerity (1).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 858: ἀφελότης

ἀφελότης, ἀφελοτητος, (from ἀφέλῃς without rock, smooth, plain, and this from φελλεύς rocky land), simplicity (A. V. singleness): καρδίας, Acts 2:46 (found only here (and in ecclesiastical writings). The Greeks used ἀφελεια).



Strong's
singleness, simplicity

From a compound of a (as a negative particle) and phellos (in the sense of a stone as stubbing the foot); smoothness, i.e. (figuratively) simplicity -- singleness.

see GREEK a

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