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Greek adjective · G793

ἀστήρικτος

asteriktosas-tay'-rik-tos

unstable

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

Concordance spelling: astḗriktos

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G793is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G793

unfixed, i.e. (figuratively) vacillating

The King James renders it: unstable.

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

asteriktos is rendered "unstable". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in 2 Peter, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Peter 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

2 Peter 2:14ἀστηρίκτους

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 2 Peter.

The other 26 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

  • unestablished2

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.

ἀστήρasterstarUses24

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

  • ἀστήρικτοι1
  • ἀστηρίκτους1

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · accusative (object) · feminine plural1A-APF
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM

2 Peter

two uses
  • Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

    2 Peter 2:14

    • ἀστηρίκτουςasteriktousadjective · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: unestablished
  • He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

    2 Peter 3:16

    • ἀστήρικτοιasteriktoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: unestablished

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.

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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