ἀλυσιτελής
alysitelḗs · G255 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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of no advantage, without special benefit
Pertaining to being of no advantage
ExamplesHebrews 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them—for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account—so that they may do this with joy, not groaning; for this would be unhelpful for you.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὗτοςthis 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 1 word
- ἀνωφελής anōphelḗs · G512 · without advantage, of no special benefit
- Both terms denote being without benefit or advantage; one leans toward gainlessness or harmfulness, the other toward plain uselessness or lack of benefit.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Of no advantage, without special benefit65.49
- In Hebrews 13:17, believers are told to obey their leaders “so that they may do this with joy, not groaning; for this would be unhelpful (alysitelés) for you,” where the word describes a course of action that brings no benefit.
Word family 23 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ές (λυσιτελής, see λυσιτελέω), unprofitable, (Xenophon, vectig. 4, 6); by litotes,…
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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