◄ 172. akakos ►
Strong's Lexicon akakos: Innocent, guileless, harmless Original Word: ἀκάκος Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akakos Pronunciation: ah-KAH-kos Phonetic Spelling: (ak'-ak-os) Definition: Innocent, guileless, harmless Meaning: innocent, guileless, simple. HELPS Word-studies 172 ákakos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 2556 /kakós, "malignant") – properly, not harmful, describing someone innocent, down to their very intentions (motives), i.e. a person without any desire to hurt (harm). 172/akakos ("a character without guile") means being constitutionally harmless, free from the desire to inflict harm (grief, hurt). [It is ultimately the negated form of 2556 /kakós ("a rotten disposition, bent on inflicting harm").] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and kakos Definition guileless NASB Translation innocent (1), unsuspecting (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 172: ἄκακος ἄκακος, (κακός); a. without guile or fraud, harmless; free from guilt: Hebrews 7:26; (cf. Clement, fragment 8, Jacobson edition (Lightfoot S. Clement of Rome etc., p. 219): ἄκακος ὁ πατήρ πνεῦμα ἔδωκεν ἄκακον). b. fearing no evil from others, distrusting no one, (cf. English guileless): Romans 16:18. ((Aeschylus) Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, others; the Sept.) (Cf. Trench, § lvi.; Tittmann i., p. 27f.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance harmless, simple, innocent. From a (as a negative particle) and kakos; not bad, i.e. (objectively) innocent or (subjectively) unsuspecting -- harmless, simple. see GREEK a see GREEK kakos Forms and Transliterations άκακοι ακάκοις άκακον ακακος άκακος ἄκακος ακάκου ακάκους ακακων ακάκων ἀκάκων άκαν άκανα akakon akakōn akákon akákōn akakos ákakos Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Romans 16:18 Adj-GMP GRK: καρδίας τῶν ἀκάκων NAS: the hearts of the unsuspecting. KJV: deceive the hearts of the simple. INT: hearts of the naïve Hebrews 7:26 Adj-NMS GRK: ἀρχιερεύς ὅσιος ἄκακος ἀμίαντος κεχωρισμένος NAS: holy, innocent, undefiled, KJV: [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, INT: a high priest holy innocent undefiled separated Strong's Greek 172 2 Occurrences ἀκάκων — 1 Occ. ἄκακος — 1 Occ.