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Strong's #830 - αὐθαίρετος
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- voluntary, of free choice, of one's own accord
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αὐθ-αίρετος, ον,
I self-chosen, self-elected, στρατηγοί X. An. 5.7.29; στεφανηφόρος voluntary, i.e. undertaking the duty at one's own expense, Ath.Mitt. 36.159 (Syros, ii A. D.), cf. IG 12(5).660,668; γυμνασίαρχος OGI 583.8; συνήγορος POxy. 1242.10. Adv. -τως Inscr.Magn. 163.15, PLond. 2.280.7 (i A. D.).
II by free choice, of one-self, E. Supp. 931; αὐ. ἐξῆλθε 2 Corinthians 8:17; independent, free, εὐβουλία Th. 1.78; ἡ τοῦ τέλους ἔφεσις οὐκ αὐ. Arist. EN 1114b6.
III of things, due to one's own choice, ὄλβος B. Fr. 20; usu. of evils, self-incurred, πημοναί S. OT 1231; οὐκ αὐθαίρετοι βροτοῖς ἔρωτες E. Fr. 339; νόσοι.. αἱ μέν εἰσ' αὐ. ib. 292.4; κίνδυνοι, δουλεία, Th. 1.144, 6.40; θάνατος X. HG 6.2.36; λῦπαι Men. 634; δυστύχημα Id. 618. Adv. -τως of free choice, LXX 2 Maccabees 6:19, al., Mitteis Chr. 361 (iv A. D.); πείθεσθαί τινι Plu. Pel. 24, independently, Luc. Anach. 34.
αὐθαίρετος, ἀυθαιρετον (from αὐτός and ἁιρέομαι), self-chosen; in Greek writings especially of states or conditions, as δουλεία, Thucydides 6, 40, etc., more rarely of persons; voluntary, of free choice, of one's own accord (as στρατηγός, Xenophon, an. 5, 7, 29, explained § 28 by ὅς ἑαυτόν έ῾ληται): 2 Corinthians 8:3, 17.
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** αὐθαίρετος , -ον
(< αὐτός , αἱρέομαι ),
[in Sm.: Exodus 35:5; Exodus 35:22*;]
1. self-chosen.
2. of one's own accord: 2 Corinthians 8:3; 2 Corinthians 8:17.†
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In OGIS 583.8 (i/A.D.) a certain Adrastus is praised as δωρεὰν καὶ αὐθαίρετος γυμνασίαρχος , i.e. he had provided oil at his own expense for the combatants, and exercised the office voluntarily (see the editor’s note) : cf. also the late P Par 21.15 (A.D. 616) αὐθαιρέτῳ βουλήσει καὶ ἀδόλῳ συνειδήσει . For the adverb see Magn 163.15 ff. πᾶσάν τε λειτουργίαν . . . τελέσαντος τῇ πατρίδι αὐθαιρέτως , and the common technical phrase ἑκουσίως καὶ αὐθαιρέτως , as P Lond 280.7 (A.D. 55) (= II. p. 193), BGU II. 581.6 (A.D. 133), P Lips I. 17.9 (A.D. 377), P Giss I. 56.3 (vi/A.D.), al. : the phrase may also be expressed adjectivally, as with γνώμῃ in P Oxy X. 1280.5 (iv/A.D.).
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