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ἄψυχος

ápsychos · G895 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. lifeless, inanimate

    Pertaining to a state of not having life

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 14:7 Yet even lifeless instruments, whether flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

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.

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.

Contrasting words 1 word
ζάω záō · G2198 · to be alive, to live, to come back to life
Participle of ζάω meaning living or alive; represents the state opposite to lifeless/inanimate, describing what possesses life
Semantic domains 1 entry
Lifeless, inanimate23.98
Used of objects without life, as of the lifeless musical instruments compared to spoken language in 1 Corinthians 14:7.
Word family 13 words

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

ψύχω psýchō · G5594 · to diminish greatly, to become cold · 1×ψυχή psychḗ · G5590 · inner self, mind, thoughts · 102×ψυχικός psychikós · G5591 · physical, natural, human · 6×ψυχρός psychrós · G5593 · cold · 4×ἐκψύχω ekpsýchō · G1634 · to die, death · 3×ψύχος psýchos · G5592 · cold · 3×ἀνάψυξις anápsyxis · G403 · relief, breathing space, refreshing · 1×ἀναψύχω anapsýchō · G404 · to encourage, to cheer up · 1×ἀποψύχω apopsýchō · G674 · to faint, to be totally disheartened, to be completely discouraged · 1×ἄψυχοςápsychos · G895εὐψυχέω eupsychéō · G2174 · to be encouraged, to take courage, to become encouraged · 1×καταψύχω katapsýchō · G2711 · to make cool, to cool · 1×σύμψυχος sýmpsychos · G4861 · harmonious, united in spirit, being one in spirit · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀψυχον (ψυχή), without a soul, lifeless: 1 Cor 14:7. (In Greek writings from (Archilochus…
ἀψυχον (ψυχή), without a soul, lifeless: 1 Cor 14:7. (In Greek writings from (Archilochus (), Simonides and) Aeschylus down.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Live, Die1 occurrence

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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