ἈΛΥΣΙΤΕΛΕΣ, ἀλυσιτελες
ALYSITELES, alysiteles
Sounds Like: ah-lyoo-see-teh-LES
Translations: unprofitable, disadvantageous, useless
From the root: ΑΛΥΣΙΤΕΛΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is not profitable or beneficial, but rather disadvantageous or useless. It is used to indicate that an action or situation will not yield a positive outcome or will result in a loss.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G0255 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 16 — 7:224
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Hebrews — 13:17
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΛΥΣΙΤΕΛΗΣ.
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.
- ἈΛΥΣΙΤΕΛΩΣ — unprofitably, disadvantageously
- ΑΛΥΣΙΤΕΛΩΣ — unprofitably, disadvantageously, to no advantage
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