ἀχρειόω
achreióō · G889 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to go wrong, to become perverse
To engage in behavior which is totally wrong and harmful
ExamplesRomans 3:12 THEY HAVE ALL TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME CORRUPT; THERE IS NO ONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἅμαtogether with, at the same time 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκκλίνωto shun 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
- אָלַח ʼâlach · H444 · to be evil, to be corrupted
- Greek ἀχρειόω emphasizes functional uselessness or spoiling of utility, while Hebrew אָלַח denotes moral-ritual defilement or becoming filthy, though both describe degradation from a proper state.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To go wrong, to become perverse88.263
- Used of moral corruption, as of humanity's universal turning aside and becoming worthless in Paul's quotation in Romans 3:12.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀχρειω: 1 aorist passive ἠχρειωθην; (ἀχρεῖος, which see); to make useless, render…
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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