χειροποίητος
cheiropoíētos · G5499 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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man-made, made by human hands
Pertaining to what has been made by someone
ExamplesMark 14:58 “We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that was made by hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.’”
Acts 7:48 “However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:
Acts 17:24 “The God who made the world and everything that is in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by hands;
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
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ναόςtemple, sanctuary 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 2
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- אֱלִיל ʼĕlîyl · H457 · image, idol, useless
- χειροποίητος emphasizes the human-manufactured nature of objects (especially in temple/worship contexts), while אֱלִיל specifically denotes idols as worthless objects of false worship; the overlap occurs when idols are characterized by their human craftsmanship (as opposed to the true God), particularly in passages contrasting manufactured idols with divine reality.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Man-made, made by human hands42.32
- Mark 14:58 recounts the testimony against Jesus, “I will destroy this temple that was made by hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.”
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χειροποίητον (χείρ and ποιέω), made by the hand i. e. the skill of man (see…
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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