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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #889 - ἀχρειόω

Transliteration

achreióō

Phonetics

akh-ri-o'-o

Origin

from (G888)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

make useless, render unserviceable
1. of character

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 444 ‑ אָלַח (aw‑lakh'); 3510 ‑ כָּאַב (kaw‑ab'); 7489 ‑ רָעַע (raw‑ah');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (2)

Romans 2

NAS (2)

Romans 2

HCS (1)

Romans 1

BSB (1)

Romans 1

ESV (1)

Romans 1

WEB (2)

Romans 2

KJV (2)

are 1

unprofitable 1

NAS (2)

BECOME 1

USELESS 1

HCS (1)

have become useless 1

BSB (1)

they have together become worthless 1

ESV (1)

worthless 1

WEB (2)

They have 1

become unprofitable 1

RAH

V-AAN 1

V-API3P 3

V-FAI2P 1

V-XAI3P 1

ANT

V-API-3P 1

BEZ

V-API-3P 1

BGB

V-AIP-3P 1

BMT

V-API-3P 1

BYZ

V-API-3P 1

ELZ

V-API-3P 1

NA26

V-API-3P 1

SBL

V-3APIP 1

SCV

V-API-3P 1

STV

V-API-3P 1

TIS

V-API-3P 1

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἀχρει-όω or ἀχρει-χρεόω

(OGI 573.16), pf. ἠχρείωκα: —

render useless, disable, damage, Dicaearch. 2.3, Plb. 3.64.8, LXX Daniel 4:11, OGI l.c.: — Pass., ἀχρεῶσθαι SIG 569.31 (Crete, iii B.C.), cf. Plb. 1.14.6, BCH 35.286 (Delos, ii B.C.); to be corrupted, LXX Psalms 13:3(14).3; δι' ἀπειρίαν ἠχρειώθησαν Apollon.Cit. 1.1.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἀχρειόω, ἀχρειω: 1 aorist passive ἠχρειωθην; (ἀχρεῖος, which see); to make useless, render unserviceable: of character, Romans 3:12 (from Psalm 13:3 (), where L marginal reading T Tr WH read ἠχρεώθησαν from the rarer ἀχρεος equivalent to ἀχρεῖος. (Several times properly, in Polybius)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

† ἀχρεόω

(Rec. -ειόω , Polyb., LXX), -ῶ

(< ἄχρεος = ἀχρεῖος ),

[in LXX (-ειόω ) for H444 ni., etc.;]

to make useless, unprofitable: pass., Romans 3:12 (LXX).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

In OGIS 573.16, a Cilician inscr of i/A.D., it is forbidden μήτε ἀπαλεῖψαι μήτε ἀχρεῶσαι μήτε μετᾶραι the inscriptions and votive offerings of an adjoining temple. The verb occurs in a quotation of Vettius, p. 290.1, where a king says ὁ τοιοῦτος . . . ἄτεκνος τῶν ἀναγκαίων στερηθήσεται καὶ πάντα ἀχρειὠσας τρόπον ἐπαίτου ζήσεται .

List of Word Forms

αχρειώσετε ηχρειώθησαν ηχρεωθησαν ἠχρεώθησαν echreothesan echreṓthesan ēchreōthēsan ēchreṓthēsan