ἄστοργος
ástorgos · G794 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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without normal human affection, without love for others
Pertaining to a lack of love or affection for close associates or family
ExamplesRomans 1:31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful;
2 Timothy 3:3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἀνελεήμων aneleḗmōn · G415 · merciless, unmerciful
- ἀνελεήμων focuses on absence of mercy in conduct, while ἄστοργος denotes lack of natural affection toward kin; both describe deficiency in expected human compassion but from different angles
- ἀνήμερος anḗmeros · G434 · fierce, vicious, untamed
- ἀνήμερος describes savage, uncivilized brutality, while ἄστοργος specifically denotes absence of family love; both appear in vice lists (2 Tim 3:3) describing breakdown of normal human relations
Contrasting words 1 word
- φιλόστοργος philóstorgos · G5387 · very loving, warmly devoted to, very affectionate
- φιλόστοργος is the direct lexical opposite: it combines φίλος (loving) with στοργή (family affection), exactly expressing the presence of what ἄστοργος (α-privative + στοργός) denotes the absence of
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Without normal human affection, without love for others25.42
- Used of a lack of natural family feeling, listed among the vices of the wicked in Romans 1:31 and of the last days in 2 Timothy 3:3.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀστοργον (στοργή love of kindred), without natural affection: Rom 1:31; 2 Tim 3:3.…
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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