ἄδολος
ádolos · G97 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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unadulterated, pure
Pertaining to being pure, with the implication of not being adulterated
Examples1 Peter 2:2 and like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
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 1 word
- εἰλικρινής eilikrinḗs · G1506 · sincere, without hidden motives
- Greek adjective meaning pure, sincere, unmixed; shares the semantic domain of purity/unmixed quality with ἄδολος, though εἰλικρινής emphasizes genuineness tested by light while ἄδολος emphasizes absence of deceit/adulteration
In the other Testament 2 words
- תָּמִים tâmîym · H8549 · whole, complete, full
- Hebrew adjective denoting unblemished, perfect, without defect; frequently used of sacrificial animals that must be without blemish, paralleling the sense of ἄδολος as pure/unadulterated
- בַּר bar · H1249 · son, at the age of ...
- Hebrew/Aramaic adjective meaning pure, clean, free from impurity; directly corresponds to the 'unadulterated, pure' sense of ἄδολος
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unadulterated, pure79.98
- This adjective denotes being free of any mixture or corruption, as in 1 Peter 2:2's instruction to long for the pure milk of the word like newborn babies.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (δόλος) (from Pindar down), guileless; of things, unadulterated, pure: of milk, 1 Pet…
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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