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ἐλαφρία

elaphría · G1644 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. fickleness

    Behavior characterized by caprice and instability

    Examples

    2 Corinthians 1:17 Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or what I decide, do I decide according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time?

How it’s used

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

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Contrasting words 1 word
στηριγμός stērigmós · G4740 · place of safety, position of safety, firm position
Greek noun denoting steadfastness and fixedness, antonymous to ἐλαφρία's connotation of changeableness and lack of constancy
Semantic domains 1 entry
Fickleness88.99
Used in 2 Corinthians 1:17, where Paul asks whether, in planning to visit the Corinthians, he was showing fickleness, or making his plans according to the flesh.
Word family 2 words

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

ἐλαφρός elaphrós · G1645 · light, not heavy, limited · 2×ἐλαφρίαelaphría · G1644
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐλαφριας, ἡ (ἐλαφρός), lightness; used of levity and fickleness of mind, 2 Cor 1:17; a…
ἐλαφριας, ἡ (ἐλαφρός), lightness; used of levity and fickleness of mind, 2 Cor 1:17; a later word, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 343.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Sensible Behavior, Senseless Behavior1 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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