Greek adjective · G459
ἄνομος
anomosan'-om-os
lawless, wicked; without law
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ánomos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G459is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G459
lawless, i.e. (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication, a Gentile), or (positively) wicked
The King James renders it: without law, lawless, transgressor, unlawful, wicked.
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
anomos is rendered "lawless, wicked; without law". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "lawless, wicked".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 22:37For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment.”
Luke 22:37ἀνόμων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: lawless, wicked, and without law.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| lawless, wickedMrk.15:28, Luk.22:37, Act.2:23, 1Ti.1:9, 2Pe.2:8; ὁ ἄ., 2Th.2:8 (= ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας, 2Th.2:3). | Tagged as
| WhereMark 15:28 |
| without law(= οἱ μὴ ὑπὸ νόμον, Rom.2:14): 1Co.9:21 (MM, VGT, see word). † | Tagged as
| WhereRomans 2:14Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires… |
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 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- ἀνόμοις3
- ἄνομος3
- ἀνόμων2
- ἀνόμους1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3A-NSM
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural2A-DPM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural2A-GPM
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1A-APM
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1A-DPN
Luke
one use
For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment.”
- ἀνόμωνanomonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: lawless
Acts
one use
He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
- ἀνόμωνanomonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: lawless
1 Corinthians
four uses
To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
- ἀνόμοιςanomoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: outside Law
- ἄνομοςanomosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: outside Law —
- ἄνομοςanomosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: outside law
- ἀνόμουςanomousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: outside Law
2 Thessalonians
one use
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
- ἄνομοςanomosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: lawless
1 Timothy
one use
We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
- ἀνόμοιςanomoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: for lawless
2 Peter
one use
(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
- ἀνόμοιςanomoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: with lawless
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.
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.