ἀνένδεκτος
anéndektos · G418 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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impossible
Pertaining to not being possible, in the sense of not being in accord with human experience
ExamplesLuke 17:1 Now He said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to one through whom they come!
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 said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔρχομαιto come 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀδύνατος adýnatos · G102 · incapable, not being able, impossible
- ἀδύνατος (impossible, unable) is the primary Greek term for impossibility and overlaps substantially with ἀνένδεκτος; both denote what cannot happen, though ἀνένδεκτος emphasizes inadmissibility while ἀδύνατος emphasizes lack of power or capacity
Contrasting words 1 word
- ἀναγκαῖος anankaîos · G316 · necessary, indispensable, close
- ἀναγκαῖος (necessary, inevitable) stands as the lexical opposite: what is ἀνένδεκτος cannot occur, while what is ἀναγκαῖος must occur
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impossible71.5
- In Luke 17:1, Jesus tells His disciples, “it is inevitable (anéndekton) that stumbling blocks come, but woe to one through whom they come!” using the word, in a double negative construction, to mean it is impossible for such things not to happen.
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνένδεκτόν (alpha privative and ἐνδεκτος, and this from ἐνδέχομαι, which see), that…
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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