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ἀπερισπάστως

aperispástōs · G563 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. without distraction, not distracting

    Pertaining to not causing someone to be distracted

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 7:35 I say this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

How it’s used

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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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Without distraction, not distracting30.33
In 1 Corinthians 7:35, Paul writes that his counsel about marriage aims “to secure undistracted (aperispástōs) devotion to the Lord,” describing an attention not pulled away toward competing concerns.
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σπάω spáō · G4685 · to pull, to drag, to draw · 2×ἀσπάζομαι aspázomai · G782 · to greet, to send greetings · 59×ἀσπασμός aspasmós · G783 · greetings · 10×ἀποσπάω apospáō · G645 · to pull out, to draw out, to drag · 5×ἀνασπάω anaspáō · G385 · to pull up, to draw up · 2×διασπάω diaspáō · G1288 · to pull apart, to tear apart · 2×ἀπερισπάστωςaperispástōs · G563ἐπισπάομαι epispáomai · G1986 · to conceal circumcision, to extend the foreskin · 1×περισπάω perispáō · G4049 · to be overburdened and worried, to be distracted and anxious · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb (περισπάω, which see), without distraction, without solicitude: 1 Cor 7:35. (The…
adverb (περισπάω, which see), without distraction, without solicitude: 1 Cor 7:35. (The adjective occurs in Wis. 16:11; Sir. 41:1; often in Polybius (the adverb in 2, 20, 10; 4, 18, 6; 12, 28, 4; cf. Winers Grammar, 463 (431)) and Plutarch.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
To Think, Thought1 occurrence

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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