ἀμελέω
ameléō · G272 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to neglect, to disregard, to pay no attention to
To not think about, and thus not respond appropriately to
ExamplesMatthew 22:5 “But they paid no attention and went their separate ways, one to his own farm, another to his business,
1 Timothy 4:14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was granted to you through words of prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.
Hebrews 2:3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- κἀγώI too 1
- ὁthe (definite article) 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
4 occurrences in 5 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 2
- σύyou 1
- σωτηρίαsalvation 1
- χάρισμαgift, gracious gift 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To neglect, to disregard, to pay no attention to30.50
- In Hebrews 2:3, the writer asks, “how will we escape if we neglect (amelḗsantes) so great a salvation?” describing the failure to give due attention to something of great importance.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ῶ; future ἀμελήσω; 1 aorist ἠμέλησα; (from ἀμελής, and this from the alpha privative and…
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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