ὀλιγόψυχος
oligópsychos · G3642 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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fainthearted, discouraged, losing heart
Pertaining to having limited or diminished motivation for the attainment of some goal
Examples1 Thessalonians 5:14 We urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
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 done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παραμυθέομαιto console 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀθυμέω athyméō · G120 · to become discouraged, to be disheartened
- Both terms denote states of discouragement or loss of heart, within the field of dejection.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fainthearted, discouraged, losing heart25.290
- Instructing the church, 1 Thessalonians 5:14 states “We urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone,” where “the fainthearted” renders this adjective used substantivally.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀλιγόψυχον (ὀλίγος, ψυχή), faint-hearted: 1 Thess 5:14. (Prov 14:29; Prov 18:14; Isa…
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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