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ἀκατάπαυστος

akatápaustos · G180 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. never ceasing, not stopping

    Pertaining to not ceasing from some activity

    Examples

    2 Peter 2:14 having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children;

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 1 word
ἀκατάσχετος akatáschetos · G183 · unrestrainable
Both describe something that cannot be held back or restrained; ἀκατάσχετος emphasizes the inability to hold or contain (from κατέχω 'to hold fast'), while ἀκατάπαυστος emphasizes the inability to stop or cease (from καταπαύω 'to stop'). Both are rare negated compound adjectives with closely overlapping semantic fields of unceasing/uncontrollable action.
Contrasting words 1 word
ἡσύχιος hēsýchios · G2272 · quiet, peaceful
ἡσύχιος describes a state of quietness, rest, and cessation from activity, the opposite of ἀκατάπαυστος which describes something that never stops or rests. The contrast is between perpetual motion/activity versus tranquil rest.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Never ceasing, not stopping68.56
In 2 Peter 2:14, the false teachers are described as “having eyes full of adultery that never cease (akatapaústous) from sin,” where the word marks an activity that continues without stopping.
Word family 8 words

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

παύω paúō · G3973 · to cause to cease, to make stop, to cease · 15×ἀναπαύω anapaúō · G373 · to cause to rest, to give rest, rest · 12×κατάπαυσις katápausis · G2663 · to rest, to cease from work · 9×ἀνάπαυσις anápausis · G372 · to cease, to stop, rest · 5×καταπαύω katapaúō · G2664 · to rest, to cease from work, to cause to rest · 4×ἐπαναπαύομαι epanapaúomai · G1879 · to remain on, to continue to be on, to rely on · 2×ἀκατάπαυστοςakatápaustos · G180συναναπαύομαι synanapaúomai · G4875 · to rest together with someone else, to rest with · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon — found only in 2 Pet 2:14 in manuscripts A and B, from which L WH Tr marginal reading…
— found only in 2 Pet 2:14 in manuscripts A and B, from which L WH Tr marginal reading have adopted it instead of the Rec. ἀκαταπαύστους, which see It may be derived from πατέομαι, perfect πεπάσμαι, to taste, eat; whence ἀκατάπαστος insatiable. In secular writings κατάπαστος (which Alexander Buttmann (1873) conjectures may have been the original reading) signifies besprinkled, soiled, from καταπάσσω to besprinkle. For a fuller discussion of this various reading see Buttmann, 65 (57) (and WH's Appendix, p. 170).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Cease, Stop1 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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