ἈΚΟΝΤΕΣ, ἀκοντες
AKONTES, akontes
Sounds Like: AH-kon-tes
Translations: unwilling, unwillingly, reluctant, reluctantly, against one's will
From the root: ἈΚΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Participle
Explanation: This word describes someone who acts unwillingly or reluctantly, or something done against one's will. It is often used adverbially to describe an action performed without desire or under compulsion. For example, it can be used in a sentence like 'they did it unwillingly' or 'he was unwilling to go'.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0002 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 2:3
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 0:6
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΚΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΚΟΝΤΑΣ — unwilling, reluctant, against one's will, those unwilling, the unwilling ones
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