νόθος
nóthos · G3541 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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illegitimate, bastard
Pertaining to someone who is born out of wedlock and is thus without legal status or rights
ExamplesHebrews 12:8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- γνήσιος gnḗsios · G1103 · genuine, real
- γνήσιος denotes legitimacy, genuineness, and true birth-status, standing as the direct lexical opposite of νόθος (illegitimate, spurious). This is a standard lexical antonym in Greek for legitimate vs. illegitimate offspring.
In the other Testament 1 word
- מַמְזֵר mamzêr · H4464 · illegitimate child, bastard, mongrel
- Hebrew term for illegitimate offspring, directly equivalent to νόθος; used in Deuteronomy 23:2 and Zechariah 9:6 for one born outside legitimate marriage
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Illegitimate, bastard10.39
- Urging believers to accept discipline, Hebrews 12:8 states “But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons,” where “illegitimate” renders this adjective.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon νοθη, νοθον, illegitimate, bastard, i. e. born, not in lawful wedlock, but of a concubine…
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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