ἄκων
ákōn · G210 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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not willing, not of one’s own free will, not a matter of free choice
Pertaining to not being willing to do something
Examples1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a commission nonetheless.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Not willing, not of one’s own free will, not a matter of free choice25.67
- In 1 Corinthians 9:17, Paul contrasts preaching “voluntarily” with doing it “against my will (ákōn),” where the word describes an action undertaken without personal willingness.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἄκουσα, ἄκον (contracted from ἀέκων, alpha privative and ἕκων willing), not of one's own…
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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