ἄκακος
ákakos · G172 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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without fault, guileless, innocent
Pertaining to being without fault and hence guileless
ExamplesHebrews 7:26 For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;
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unsuspecting, naive
Pertaining to being unsuspecting or naive with regard to possible deception
ExamplesRomans 16:18 For such people are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
How it’s used In 1 role
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In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καρδίαheart 1
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Unsuspecting, naive31.34
- In Romans 16:18, Paul warns that smooth talkers “deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting (tōn akákōn),” where the word describes those who are naive and easily misled rather than morally innocent.
- Without fault, guileless, innocent88.2
- In Hebrews 7:26, the high priest fitting for believers is described as “holy, innocent (ákakos), undefiled, separated from sinners,” where the word marks moral blamelessness and freedom from guile.
Word family 20 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (κακός); a. without guile or fraud, harmless; free from guilt: Heb 7:26; (cf. Clement,…
a. without guile or fraud, harmless; free from guilt: Heb 7:26; (cf. Clement, fragment 8, Jacobson edition (Lightfoot S. Clement of Rome etc., p. 219): ἄκακος ὁ πατήρ πνεῦμα ἔδωκεν ἄκακον).
b. fearing no evil from others, distrusting no one, (cf. English guileless): Rom 16:18. ((Aeschylus) Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, others; the Sept.) (Cf. Trench, § lvi.; Tittmann i., p. 27f.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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