ἄμαχος
ámachos · G269 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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not contentious, peaceful
Pertaining to a lack of conflict and contention
Examples1 Timothy 3:3 not overindulging in wine, not a bully, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἤπιος ḗpios · G2261 · gentle, kind
- ἄμαχος specifically denotes one who does not fight or is not contentious, while ἤπιος denotes one who is gentle and mild in manner. Both describe a non-aggressive temperament, with ἄμαχος focusing on absence of quarrelsomeness and ἤπιος on positive gentleness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Not contentious, peaceful39.24
- In 1 Timothy 3:3, an overseer must be “gentle, not contentious (ámachon), free from the love of money,” describing a temperament that avoids quarreling.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (μάχη), in Greek writings (from Pindar down) commonly not to be withstood, invincible;…
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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