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ἄθεος

átheos · G112 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. being without God

    Pertaining to being without any relationship to God

    Examples

    Ephesians 2:12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the people of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Being without God12.2
This adjective denotes a condition of being cut off from God, as in Ephesians 2:12's reminder that the Gentiles were at that time separate from Christ, having no hope and without God in the world.
Word family 14 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

θεός theós · G2316 · God, god · 1311×θεῖος theîos · G2304 · divine, of God, deity · 3×Θεόφιλος Theóphilos · G2321 · friend of God; Theophilus, a Christian · 2×ἄθεοςátheos · G112θεά theá · G2299 · goddess · 1×θειότης theiótēs · G2305 · deity, divine nature, divine being · 1×θεοδίδακτος theodídaktos · G2312 · taught by God, instructed by God · 1×θεομάχος theomáchos · G2314 · to fight against God, to be against God, to be an enemy of God · 1×θεόπνευστος theópneustos · G2315 · inspired by God, divinely inspired · 1×θεοσέβεια theosébeia · G2317 · religion, piety · 1×θεοσεβής theosebḗs · G2318 · devout, pious, religious · 1×θεοστυγής theostygḗs · G2319 · hating God, one who hates God · 1×θεότης theótēs · G2320 · deity, divine nature, divine being · 1×θεομαχέω theomachéō · G2313 · to resist deity · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Θεός) (from Pindar down], without God, knowing and worshipping no God, in which sense…
(Θεός) (from Pindar down], without God, knowing and worshipping no God, in which sense Aelian v. h. 2, 31 declares ὅτι μηδείς τῶν βαρβάρων ἄθεος; in classic authors generally slighting the gods, impious, repudiating the gods recognized by the state, in which sense certain Greek philosophers, the Jews (Josephus, contra Apion 2, 14, 4), and subsequently Christians were called ἄθεοι by the heathen (Justin, Apology 1, 13, etc.). In Eph 2:12 of one who neither knows nor worships the true God; so of the heathen (cf. 1 Thess 4:5; Gal 4:8); Clement, οἱ τόν ὄντως ὄντα... Alex. protr, 2:23, p. 19 Pott. ἀθεους Θεόν ἠγνοήκλασι, Philo, leg. ad Gai. § 25 αἰγυπτιακὴ ἀθεότης, Hos 4:15 Symm. οἶκος ἀθεΐας, a house in which idols are worshipped, Ignatius ad Trall. 10 [ET] ἄθεοι τοῦτ᾿ἔστιν ἄπιστοι (of the Docetae); (others understand Ephesians, the passage cited passively deserted of God, Vulg.sine Deo; on the various meanings of the word see Meyer (or Ellicott)).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Supernatural Beings1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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