ἄδηλος
ádēlos · G82 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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not evident, not perceived, unseen, unmarked
Pertaining to not being perceived
ExamplesLuke 11:44 “Woe to you! For you are like unseen tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”
1 Corinthians 14:8 For if the trumpet produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
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 3 words
- κρυπτός kryptós · G2927 · in secret, privately
- Adjective meaning 'hidden/secret'; overlaps substantially with ἄδηλος but κρυπτός emphasizes intentional concealment while ἄδηλος can indicate mere lack of clarity or visibility.
- ἀφανής aphanḗs · G852 · hidden, unknown
- Adjective meaning 'not manifest/invisible'; closely related to ἄδηλος in denoting what cannot be seen or perceived, though ἀφανής often emphasizes visual invisibility specifically.
- ἄγνωστος ágnōstos · G57 · not known, unknown
- Adjective meaning 'unknown/not known'; overlaps with ἄδηλος in the sense of what is not evident or perceived, though ἄγνωστος emphasizes cognitive unknowing rather than sensory hiddenness.
In the other Testament 1 word
- סָתַר çâthar · H5641 · to be hidden, to hide oneself
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to hide/conceal'; adjective/participle forms convey the same semantic range of 'hidden/concealed' as Greek ἄδηλος, making it a direct translation equivalent.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Not evident, not perceived, unseen, unmarked24.95
- This adjective denotes what remains unseen or unmarked, as in Luke 11:44's woe against those who are like unseen tombs, over which people walk without being aware of it.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (δῆλος), not manifest: Lk 11:44; indistinct, uncertain, obscure: φωνή, 1 Cor 14:8. (In…
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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