ἈΧΡΗΣΤΑ, ἀχρηστα
ACHRĒSTA, achrēsta
Sounds Like: akh-RAY-stah
Translations: useless, unprofitable, worthless, useless things, unprofitable things, worthless things
From the root: ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'useless' or 'unprofitable'. It describes something that is of no benefit, value, or advantage. It can be used to refer to things that are ineffective or serve no good purpose.
Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G0890 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:2
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 1:75
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 4:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Wisdom — 3:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΙ — useless, unprofitable, unserviceable, worthless, good for nothing, useless ones
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΙΣ — useless, unprofitable, unserviceable, good for nothing, to the useless, for the useless
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΝ — useless, unprofitable, worthless, a useless thing, an unprofitable thing
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ — useless, unprofitable, unserviceable, good for nothing
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΥΣ — unprofitable, useless, worthless, unserviceable
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΩ — useless, unprofitable, unserviceable, (to) useless, (to) unprofitable, (to) unserviceable
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΩΝ — of useless, of unprofitable, of worthless, of good-for-nothing
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