ταλαίπωρος
talaípōros · G5005 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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wretched, pathetic
Pertaining to being in a wretched state, either mentally or physically
ExamplesRomans 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Revelation 3:17 ‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have no need of anything,” and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked,
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
- σύyou 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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Contrasting words 1 word
- μακάριος makários · G3107 · happy
- Direct lexical opposite: μακάριος denotes one who is blessed and happy, the polar opposite of ταλαίπωρος which denotes one who is miserable and wretched
In the other Testament 1 word
- עָנִי ʻânîy · H6041 · afflicted, poor, humble
- Standard Hebrew translation-equivalent for Greek adjectives describing one who is in distress or misery; both describe the state of enduring hardship
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wretched, pathetic22.12
- Paul cries out, “Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24).
Word family 31 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ταλαίπωρον (from ΤΑΛΑΩ, ΤΛΑΩ, to bear, undergo, and πῶρος a callus (others, πῶρος, but…
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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