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ἀκαίρως

akaírōs · G171 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. unfavorable, when the time is not right

    Pertaining to the lack of a favorable opportunity for doing something

    Examples

    2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience and instruction.

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
Unfavorable, when the time is not right67.8
In 2 Timothy 4:2, Timothy is charged to “be ready in season and out of season (akaírōs),” where the adverb marks a time that is not opportune or favorable for the task at hand.
Word family 8 words

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

καιρός kairós · G2540 · time, occasion, period of time · 86×πρόσκαιρος próskairos · G4340 · not long, temporary, for a little while · 4×εὐκαιρέω eukairéō · G2119 · to have an appropriate time for, to have an occasion to, to have a chance to · 3×εὐκαιρία eukairía · G2120 · opportunity, good occasion, favorable time · 2×εὔκαιρος eúkairos · G2121 · favorable, good · 2×εὐκαίρως eukaírōs · G2122 · favorable, good · 2×ἀκαιρέομαι akairéomai · G170 · to lack an opportunity, to have no chance to · 1×ἀκαίρωςakaírōs · G171
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (καιρός), adverb, unseasonably, (A. V. out of season) (opposed to εὐκαίρως): 2 Tim 4:2…
(καιρός), adverb, unseasonably, (A. V. out of season) (opposed to εὐκαίρως): 2 Tim 4:2 (whether seasonable for men or not). (Sir. 35:4; (Aeschylus Ag. 808); Plato, de rep. x., p. 606 b.; Tim. 33 a.; 86 c.; Xenophon, Ephesians 5, 7; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 7, 2, others.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
A Point of Time without Reference to Other Points of Time: Time, Occasion, Ever, Often1 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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