ἀνήμερος
anḗmeros · G434 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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fierce, vicious, untamed
Pertaining to fierceness, in the sense of being wild and untamed
Examples2 Timothy 3:3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἄγριος ágrios · G66 · violent, stormy, wild
- Greek adjective meaning wild or savage, used of untamed nature and fierce character, closely synonymous with ἀνήμερος but more commonly attested
Contrasting words 1 word
- πραΰς praÿs · G4239 · mild, gentle, meek
- Greek adjective for gentleness and meekness in character, representing the opposite behavioral disposition from savage/fierce (ἀνήμερος)
In the other Testament 1 word
- עַז ʻaz · H5794 · strong, fierce, powerful
- Hebrew adjective describing fierce, violent, or greedy character, semantically equivalent to the savage/fierce sense of ἀνήμερος
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fierce, vicious, untamed20.5
- In 2 Timothy 3:3, Paul lists among the marks of the last days people who are “unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal (anḗmeroi),” describing a savage, untamed disposition toward others.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνημερον (alpha privative and ἥμερος), not tame, savage, fierce: 2 Tim 3:8. (In Greek…
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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