Word

ἐφευρετής

epheuretḗs · G2182 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. contriver, inventor, one who thinks up

    One who thinks up schemes or plans of action

    Examples

    Romans 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
Contriver, inventor, one who thinks up30.69
In Romans 1:30, among those who suppress the truth are named “inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,” using this word for one who devises or contrives something new.
Word family 3 words

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

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐφευρετου, ὁ (ἐφευρίσκω to find out), an inventor, contriver (Anacreon () 41 (36), 3;…
ἐφευρετου, ὁ (ἐφευρίσκω to find out), an inventor, contriver (Anacreon () 41 (36), 3; Schol. ad Aristophanes ran. 1499): κακῶν, Rom 1:30 (κακῶν ἑύρεται, Philo in Flacc. § 4 middle; ὁ καινων ἀδικημάτων εὑρετής, ibid. § 10; πάσης κακίας εὑρετής, 2 Macc. 7:31; Sejanusfacinorum omalum repertor, Tacitus, ann. 4, 11).

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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