ἀστήρικτος
astḗriktos · G793 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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unstable
Pertaining to the tendency to change and waver in one’s views and attitudes
Examples2 Peter 2:14 having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children;
2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
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 it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- στρεβλόωto distort 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- מוֹט môwṭ · H4131 · to move, to shake, to slip
- מוט expresses physical or metaphorical instability, wavering, and being unsteady—precisely the semantic domain of ἀστήρικτος when used figuratively of vacillating persons. It is used of those who are morally/spiritually unstable (e.g., Ps 15:5, 'he shall never be moved').
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unstable31.79
- Used of souls easily led astray, as of the unstable souls enticed by false teachers in 2 Peter 2:14 and the unstable who distort Scripture in 2 Peter 3:16.
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀστηρικτον (στηρίζω), unstable, unsteadfast: 2 Pet 2:14; 2 Pet 3:16. (Anthol. Pal. 6,…
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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