ἀνόσιος
anósios · G462 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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unholy, impious, godless
Pertaining to what is not consecrated or devoted to God
Examples1 Timothy 1:9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and worldly, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
2 Timothy 3:2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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 3 words
- ἀσεβής asebḗs · G765 · ungodly
- Greek adjective meaning ungodly or impious; distinct from ἀνόσιος (which emphasizes violation of what is holy/sacred) but closely overlapping in semantic range, both denoting lack of reverence toward God and wickedness
- ἄνομος ánomos · G459 · lawless, without the Law
- Greek adjective meaning lawless or without law; semantically overlaps with ἀνόσιος in describing wickedness, though ἄνομος emphasizes violation of law while ἀνόσιος emphasizes violation of what is holy
- βέβηλος bébēlos · G952 · worldly, godless
- Greek adjective meaning profane or unholy; closely related to ἀνόσιος in denoting that which violates sacred boundaries, though βέβηλος may emphasize the profane/secular nature more directly
In the other Testament 1 word
- רָשָׁע râshâʻ · H7563 · wicked, evil, guilty, in the wrong
- Hebrew adjective/noun for wicked or ungodly persons, frequently rendered in Greek with terms in the ἀσεβ- or ἀνομ- families, but semantically overlaps with ἀνόσιος in denoting moral wickedness and impiety toward God
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unholy, impious, godless53.47
- In 2 Timothy 3:2, Paul lists the marks of the last days, including people who are “lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy (anósioi),” describing a character devoid of reverence for what is sacred.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνοσιον (alpha privative and ὅσιος, which see), unholy, impious, wicked: 1 Tim 1:9; 2 Tim…
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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