ἄγναφος
ágnaphos · G46 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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unshrunken, not as yet shrunken
Pertaining to an unshrunken condition of cloth, that is, before it has been washed and dried
ExamplesMatthew 9:16 “But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.
Mark 2:21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.
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 2 words
- καινός kainós · G2537 · new, recent
- καινός denotes new in quality or freshness generally, while ἄγναφος specifically denotes new cloth that has not been fulled/processed/shrunk yet; καινός is the broader synonym for 'new' that overlaps with ἄγναφος in the context of cloth.
- νέος néos · G3501 · new, recent
- νέος denotes new in time or age, and in the context of cloth can indicate new/fresh material; ἄγναφος is more technical, specifically referring to unfulled/unshrunken new cloth, whereas νέος is the general temporal term for newness.
Contrasting words 1 word
- παλαιός palaiós · G3820 · old
- παλαιός (old, worn) is the standard lexical antonym of new in Greek; ἄγναφος refers to new unshrunken cloth, and παλαιός to old worn cloth, making them dictionary-level opposites in the domain of textile condition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unshrunken, not as yet shrunken48.8
- This adjective denotes cloth that has not yet been shrunk by fulling, as in Matthew 9:16's warning that no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὁ, ἡ (γνάπτω to dress or full cloth, cf. ἄρραφος), unmilled, unfulled, undressed: Mt…
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
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