Greek adjective · G121
ἄθωος
athoosath'-o-os
unpunished; innocent
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: áthōos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G121is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G121
not guilty
The King James renders it: innocent.
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
athoos is rendered "unpunished; innocent". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "unpunished".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 27:4“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
Matthew 27:4ἀθῷον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: unpunished, and innocent.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| unpunished(MM, VGT, see word). | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 27:4“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied… |
| innocentMat.27:4 (WH, R, mg., δίκαιον) 27:24. (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 27:4“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied… |
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
- ἀθῷον1
- ἀθῷός1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular1A-ASN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
Matthew
two uses
“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
- ἀθῷονathoonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: innocent
When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
- ἀθῷόςathoosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Guiltless
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.