Greek noun (feminine) · G458
ἀνομία
anomiaan-om-ee'-ah
lawlessness
15 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: anomía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G458is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G458
illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness
The King James renders it: iniquity, X transgress(-ion of) the law, unrighteousness.
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
anomia is rendered "lawlessness". It stands 15 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Four of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
Matthew 7:23ἀνομίαν.¶
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's fifteen uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- lawlessness9
- of lawlessness2
- lawless acts1
- lawless deeds1
- to lawlessness1
- wickedness1
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 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- ἀνομίαν5
- ἀνομίας3
- ἀνομίᾳ2
- ἀνομία1
- ἀνομίαι1
- ἀνομίαν.¶1
- ἀνομίας.¶1
- ἀνομιῶν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular6N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular4N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural1N-GPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Matthew
four uses
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
- ἀνομίαν.¶anomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.
- ἀνομίανanomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
- ἀνομίας.¶anomiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
- ἀνομίανanomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
Romans
three uses
“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
- ἀνομίαιanomiainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: lawless deeds
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- ἀνομίᾳanomianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: to lawlessness
- ἀνομίανanomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
2 Corinthians
one use
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- ἀνομίᾳanomianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
2 Thessalonians
two uses
Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
- ἀνομίαςanomiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of lawlessness
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way.
- ἀνομίαςanomiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of lawlessness
Titus
one use
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- ἀνομίαςanomiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
Hebrews
two uses
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.”
- ἀνομίανanomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
- ἀνομιῶνanomionnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: lawless acts
1 John
two uses
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
- ἀνομίανanomiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
- ἀνομίαanomianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: lawlessness
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.