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Greek adjective · G111

ἀθέμιτος

athemitosath-em'-ee-tos

unlawful

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: athémitos

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G111is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G111

illegal; by implication, flagitious

The King James renders it: abominable, unlawful thing.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

athemitos is rendered "unlawful". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 10:28He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

Acts 10:28ἀθέμιτόν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Acts.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • in abominable1
  • unlawful1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἀθεμίτοις1
  • ἀθέμιτόν1

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1A-DPF
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN

Acts

one use
  • He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

    Acts 10:28

    • ἀθέμιτόνathemitonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: unlawful

1 Peter

one use
  • For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

    1 Peter 4:3

    • ἀθεμίτοιςathemitoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: in abominable

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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