ἀπόβλητος
apóblētos · G579 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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something to be rejected
(Derivative of ἀποβάλλω ‘to reject,’ not occurring in the NT) That which is to be rejected
Examples1 Timothy 4:4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐδείςno one 1
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἀδόκιμος adókimos · G96 · not fitting, what should not be done, bad
- ἀδόκιμος shares the sense of 'rejected' or 'not approved' and is used to describe something that fails to meet a standard and is thus rejected, similar to ἀπόβλητος but from the δοκιμάζω (testing/approval) semantic field rather than the βάλλω (throwing/casting) field.
- ἄχρηστος áchrēstos · G890 · useless, not useful, worthless
- ἄχρηστος denotes something useless or unprofitable, closely related to the idea of being worthy of rejection because it serves no purpose, though it emphasizes uselessness rather than the act of casting off.
Contrasting words 2 words
- ἀπόδεκτος apódektos · G587 · pleasing, acceptable
- ἀποδεκτός means 'acceptable' or 'approved,' the direct lexical opposite of ἀπόβλητος ('to be rejected'); what is ἀποδεκτός is received favorably, while what is ἀπόβλητος is cast off.
- δεκτός dektós · G1184 · pleasing, acceptable, one who is welcomed
- δεκτός denotes 'acceptable' or 'welcomed,' functioning as a lexical opposite to ἀπόβλητος; what is δεκτός is received, while what is ἀπόβλητος is rejected.
In the other Testament 1 word
- מָאַס mâʼaç · H3988 · to reject, to refuse, to waste away
- The Hebrew verb מָאַס is the standard translation equivalent for 'rejected/to be rejected' in LXX contexts; ἀπόβλητος describes something worthy of rejection, and מָאַס captures the semantic field of rejection in Hebrew.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Something to be rejected57.141
- In 1 Timothy 4:4, Paul writes, “everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected (apóblēton) if it is received with gratitude,” describing food and other created things as fit to be received, not set aside.
Word family 38 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀπόβλητον, thrown away, to be thrown away, rejected, despised, abominated: as unclean, 1…
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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