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ἀκριβῶς

akribōs · G199 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. accurate, accurately, strict, strictly

    Pertaining to strict conformity to a norm or standard, involving both detail and completeness

    Examples

    Matthew 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him.”

    Luke 1:3 it seemed fitting to me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in an orderly sequence, most excellent Theophilus;

    Acts 18:25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was accurately speaking and teaching things about Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John;

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
Accurate, accurately, strict, strictly72.19
In Acts 18:26, Priscilla and Aquila “took him aside and explained the way of God more accurately (akribésteron) to him,” where the adverb describes correcting and refining Apollos's understanding with greater precision.
Word family 8 words

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

ἄκρον ákron · G206 · extreme boundary, final limit, end · 6×ἀκροβυστία akrobystía · G203 · being uncircumcised, the foreskin not cut off, uncircumcised · 20×ἀκριβῶςakribōs · G199ἀκριβόω akribóō · G198 · to learn exactly, to find out accurately, to ascertain · 2×ἀκρογωνιαῖος akrogōniaîos · G204 · cornerstone, important stone · 2×ἀκρίβεια akríbeia · G195 · strictness, strict conformance to, accurateness · 1×ἀκριβέστατος akribéstatos · G196 · accurate, accurately, strict · 1×ἀκροθίνιον akrothínion · G205 · the best of the booty, the finest spoils, the most valuable plunder · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb, exactly, accurately, diligently: Mt 2:8; Lk 1:3; Acts 18:25; 1 Thess 5:2; ἀκριβῶς…
adverb, exactly, accurately, diligently: Mt 2:8; Lk 1:3; Acts 18:25; 1 Thess 5:2; ἀκριβῶς περιπατεῖν to live carefully, circumspectly, deviating in no respect from the law of duty, Eph 5:15. (From Aeschylus down.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Accurate, Inaccurate5 occurrences

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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