Greek adjective · G886
ἀχειροποίητος
acheiropoietosakh-i-rop-oy'-ay-tos
not man-made
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: acheiropoíētos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G886is 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) · G886
unmanufactured, i.e. inartificial
The King James renders it: made without (not made with) hands.
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
acheiropoietos is rendered "not man-made". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 14:58“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
Mark 14:58ἀχειροποίητον
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 Mark.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- not made with hands2
- made without hands1
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
- ἀχειροποίητον2
- ἀχειροποιήτῳ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular1A-ASF
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1A-DSF
Mark
one use
“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
- ἀχειροποίητονacheiropoietonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: not made with hands
2 Corinthians
one use
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- ἀχειροποίητονacheiropoietonadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: not made with hands
Colossians
one use
In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.
- ἀχειροποιήτῳacheiropoietoadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: made without hands
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
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.