ἀκατάγνωστος
akatágnōstos · G176 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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above criticism, beyond reproach
Pertaining to what cannot be criticized
ExamplesTitus 2:8 sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἀνέγκλητος anénklētos · G410 · without accusation
- The target term and ἀνέγκλητος (“unaccused, irreproachable”) both denote moral or legal irreproachability; the target emphasizes the sense of being beyond condemnation, while ἀνέγκλητος emphasizes being free from accusation — a genuine convergence on the concept of blamelessness, seen from two related angles.
- ἀνεπίληπτος anepílēptos · G423 · above criticism, beyond reproach
- Both terms describe the state of being above reproach or beyond justified criticism. ἀνεπίληπτος (anepílēptos, G423) emphasizes the impossibility of laying hold of or seizing upon fault, while ἀκατάγνωστος (akatágnōstos, G176) emphasizes the impossibility of condemning or finding guilty. Both are used in New Testament contexts of Christian conduct and qualifications, particularly in pastoral instruction regarding church leadership and sound teaching.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Above criticism, beyond reproach33.415
- In Titus 2:8, Titus is to model “sound in speech which is beyond reproach (akatágnōston), so that the opponent will be put to shame,” where the word describes speech that gives no valid grounds for criticism.
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (καταγινώσκω), that cannot be condemned, not to be censured: Tit 2:8. (2 Macc. 4:47, and…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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