ἀκέραιος
akéraios · G185 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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pure, untainted
Pertaining to being without a mixture of evil and hence to being pure
ExamplesMatthew 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be as wary as serpents, and as innocent as doves.
Romans 16:19 For the report of your obedience has reached everyone; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil.
Philippians 2:15 so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τέκνονchild, offspring 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- θέλωto want, to wish, to desire 1
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
- ἄκακος ákakos · G172 · without fault, guileless, innocent
- Greek adjective denoting absence of evil intent, closely synonymous with ἀκέραιος in describing moral innocence and simplicity, frequently paired in similar ethical contexts
- ἀμίαντος amíantos · G283 · undefiled, untainted
- Greek adjective denoting untainted purity, sharing with ἀκέραιος the concept of being unmixed or unstained by corruption
Contrasting words 2 words
- πανοῦργος panoûrgos · G3835 · scoundrel, crafty fellow
- Greek adjective denoting craftiness and cunning duplicity, the direct opposite of ἀκέραιος in describing moral character mixed with guile and deception rather than innocent simplicity
- δόλιος dólios · G1386 · deceitful, treacherous
- Greek adjective denoting deceitfulness and guile, antithetical to ἀκέραιος which describes guileless innocence
In the other Testament 2 words
- תָּם tâm · H8535 · joined, perfect
- Hebrew adjective denoting moral integrity and innocence, a standard translation equivalent for ἀκέραιος in contexts describing ethical purity and guilelessness
- תֹּם tôm · H8537 · integrity, blamelessness, in full measure
- Hebrew noun denoting integrity and innocence, semantically overlapping with ἀκέραιος in expressing unblemished moral character
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Pure, untainted88.32
- In Matthew 10:16, Jesus sends His disciples out “as wary as serpents, and as innocent (akéraioi) as doves,” where the word describes a moral purity unmixed with guile or corrupt motive.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (κεράννυμι); a. unmixed, pure, as wine, metals, b. of the mind, without admixture of…
a. unmixed, pure, as wine, metals,
b. of the mind, without admixture of evil, free from guile, innocent, simple: Mt 10:16; Rom 16:19; Phm 2:15; (and frequent in secular writings). (Cf. Ellicott on Philippians, the passage cited; Trench, § lvi.; Tittmann 1:27f.)
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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