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ἄτοπος

átopos · G824 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. not fitting, what should not be done, bad

    Pertaining to not being in accordance with what is right, appropriate, or fitting

    Examples

    Luke 23:41 “And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our crimes; but this Man has done nothing wrong.”

    Acts 25:5 “Therefore,” he said, “have the influential men among you go there with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, have them bring charges against him.”

    2 Thessalonians 3:2 and that we will be rescued from troublesome and evil people; for not all have the faith.

  2. unusual, unusual and bad

    Pertaining to that which is unusual, and generally with the implication of harmful or dangerous

    Examples

    Acts 28:6 Now they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
אָוֶן ʼâven · H205 · evil, iniquity, misfortune
ἄτοπος (átopos, G824) renders the ethical wrongness/wickedness sense of אָוֶן (ʼâven, H205) in LXX contexts, focusing on what is morally improper or injurious rather than the broader affliction/vanity semantic range that אָוֶן (ʼâven, H205) also carries in Hebrew.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Unusual, unusual and bad58.54
Used of something out of the ordinary in a negative sense, as of the islanders expecting Paul to suddenly fall down dead but seeing nothing unusual happen in Acts 28:6.
Not fitting, what should not be done, bad88.111
Used of morally improper conduct, as of the crucified Jesus who had done nothing wrong in Luke 23:41 and of the wrongdoing Festus investigates in Acts 25:5.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

τόπος tópos · G5117 · space, place, room · 95×ἄτοποςátopos · G824ἐντόπιος entópios · G1786 · local people · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἄτοπον (τόπος), out of place; not befitting, unbecoming (so in Greek writings from…
ἄτοπον (τόπος), out of place; not befitting, unbecoming (so in Greek writings from Thucydides down; very often in Plato); in later Greek in an ethical sense, improper, wicked: Lk 23:41 (ἄτοπον τί πράσσειν, as in Job 27:6; Job 27:2 Macc. 14:23); Acts 25:5 L T Tr WH; (the Sept. for אָוֶן. Job 4:8; Job 11:11, etc. Josephus, Antiquities 6, 5, 6; Plutarch, de aud. poët. c. 3 φαῦλα and ἄτοπα); of men: 2 Thess 3:2 (ἀτοποι καί πονηροί; Luth.unartig, more correctly unrighteous ((iniquus), A. V. unreasonable, cf. Ellicott at the passage)). inconvenient, harmful: Acts 28:6 μηδέν ἄτοπον εἰς αὐτόν γινόμενον, no injury, no harm coming to him (Thucydides 2, 49; Josephus, Antiquities 11, 5, 2; Herodian, 4, 11, 7 (4, Bekker edition)).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Unusual, Different From the Ordinary1 occurrenceBad, Evil, Harmful, Damaging3 occurrences

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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