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ἀνάξιος

anáxios · G370 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. not being worthy, not meriting, unworthily

    Pertaining to not corresponding to a comparable merit or worth

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 6:2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest law courts?

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.

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.

Semantic domains 1 entry
Not being worthy, not meriting, unworthily65.19
In 1 Corinthians 6:2, Paul asks believers, “if the world is judged by you, are you not competent (anáxioí) to form the smallest law courts?” using the word, in its negated form, to press the point that they are not unworthy of handling minor disputes.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἄξιος áxios · G514 · worthy, comparable, of comparable value · 41×ἀξιόω axióō · G515 · to regard as worthy of, to consider as meriting, to regard as being valuable for · 7×ἀξίως axíōs · G516 · worthy, comparable, of comparable value · 6×καταξιόω kataxióō · G2661 · to regard as worthy of, to consider as meriting, to regard as being valuable for · 3×ἀνάξιοςanáxios · G370ἀναξίως anaxíōs · G371 · not being worthy, not meriting, unworthily · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνάξιον (alpha privative and ἄξιος) (from Sophocles down), unworthy (τίνος): unfit for a…
ἀνάξιον (alpha privative and ἄξιος) (from Sophocles down), unworthy (τίνος): unfit for a thing, 1 Cor 6:2.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Worthy, Not Worthy1 occurrence

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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