Greek adjective · G185
ἀκέραιος
akeraiosak-er'-ah-yos
innocent
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: akéraios
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G185is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G185
unmixed, i.e. (figuratively) innocent
The King James renders it: harmless, simple.
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
akeraios is rendered "innocent". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 10:16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Matthew 10:16ἀκέραιοι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- innocent3
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 3, 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
- ἀκέραιοι2
- ἀκεραίους1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2A-NPM
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1A-APM
Matthew
one use
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
- ἀκέραιοιakeraioiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: innocent
Romans
one use
Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
- ἀκεραίουςakeraiousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: innocent
Philippians
one use
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- ἀκέραιοιakeraioiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: innocent
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.