ἀνωφελής
anōphelḗs · G512 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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without advantage, of no special benefit
Pertaining to not offering any special benefit
ExamplesTitus 3:9 But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are useless and worthless.
Hebrews 7:18 For, on the one hand, there is the nullification of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διάthrough 2
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀλυσιτελής alysitelḗs · G255 · of no advantage, without special benefit
- ἀνωφελής and ἀλυσιτελής both denote the absence of benefit or profit, being gainless or useless. ἀλυσιτελής carries a somewhat stronger connotation of active detriment, while ἀνωφελής suggests mere lack of usefulness; both belong to the same narrow field of unprofitability.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Without advantage, of no special benefit65.50
- In Titus 3:9, Paul instructs Titus to “avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are useless and worthless (anōphelẽis),” describing arguments that yield no genuine benefit.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνωφελές (alpha privative and ὄφελος); from Aeschylus down; unprofitable, useless: Tit…
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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