ἀνεπίληπτος
anepílēptos · G423 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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above criticism, beyond reproach
Pertaining to what cannot be criticized
Examples1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,
1 Timothy 5:7 Give these instructions as well, so that they may be above reproach.
1 Timothy 6:14 that you keep the commandment without fault or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀνήρman, husband 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίσκοποςoverseer 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀκατάγνωστος akatágnōstos · G176 · above criticism, beyond reproach
- ἀνέγκλητος and ἀκατάγνωστος both denote moral irreproachability — being beyond reproach or blame. ἀνέγκλητος suggests being beyond legal accusation, while ἀκατάγνωστος suggests being beyond condemnation; both converge on the same evaluative sense of blamelessness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Above criticism, beyond reproach33.415
- In 1 Timothy 3:2, Paul writes that “an overseer... must be above reproach (anepílēmpton), the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable,” describing a character that gives no valid ground for censure.
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (L T Tr WH ἀνεπίλημπτος; see Mu, ἀνεπίληπτον (alpha privative and ἐπιλαμβάνω), properly,…
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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