ἀσύνθετος
asýnthetos · G802 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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not keeping a promise, not abiding by an agreement
Pertaining to not being bound or not regarding oneself as bound by any covenant or agreement
ExamplesRomans 1:31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unfeeling, and unmerciful;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἄσπονδος áspondos · G786 · irreconcilable, unwilling to be at peace with others
- Greek adjective denoting one who will not make or keep a truce/treaty, semantically overlapping with ἀσύνθετος in describing those who break or refuse agreements; both appear in similar vice lists (Rom 1:31; 2 Tim 3:3)
Contrasting words 1 word
- πιστός pistós · G4103 · one who trusts in, trusting, faithful
- Direct lexical antonym: πιστός denotes one who keeps faith, keeps agreements, and is trustworthy, the exact opposite of ἀσύνθετος which describes one who breaks agreements and is treacherous to compacts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Not keeping a promise, not abiding by an agreement34.45
- Used of a failure to honor agreements, listed among the vices of the wicked in Romans 1:31.
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀσυνθετον, 1. uncompounded, simple (Plato, Aristotle, others.). 2. (συντίθεμαι to…
1. uncompounded, simple (Plato, Aristotle, others.).
2. (συντίθεμαι to covenant), covenant-breaking, faithless: Rom 1:31 (so in Jer 3:8, Jer 3:11; Demosthenes de falsa leg., p. 383, 6; cf. Pape and Passow under the word; ἀσυνθέτειν to be faithless (Ps 72:15; 2 Esdr. 10:2; Neh 1:8, etc.); ἀσυνθεσία transgression, 1 Chr 9:1 (Ald., Complutensian; 2 Esdr. 9:2, 4; Jer 3:7); ἐυσυνθέτειν to keep faith; (cf. Trench, § lii.)).
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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