ἈΧΡΕΙΟΣ, ἀχρειος
ACHREIOS, achreios
Sounds Like: akh-REH-ee-os
Translations: unprofitable, useless, worthless, good for nothing, a useless one
From the root: ἈΧΡΕΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This adjective describes something or someone as useless, unprofitable, or worthless. It implies a lack of benefit or advantage, often in a moral or practical sense. It can be used to describe a servant who has not done anything beyond their basic duty, or something that provides no gain or advantage.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine or Feminine; Singular, Accusative, Masculine or Feminine; Singular, Vocative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G0888 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:99
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 6:21
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 11:50
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Samuel — 6:22
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΧΡΕΙΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΧΡΕΙΑ — useless, unprofitable, worthless, of no account, good for nothing, a useless thing, worthless things
- ἈΧΡΕΙΟΙ — unprofitable, useless, worthless, unworthy
- ἈΧΡΕΙΟΝ — useless, unprofitable, worthless, a useless thing, an unprofitable thing
- ἈΧΡΕΙΟΥ — (of) useless, (of) unprofitable, (of) worthless
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