ἈΧΡΗΣΤΩ, ἀχρηστω
ACHRĒSTŌ, achrēstō
Sounds Like: akh-RAY-stoh
Translations: useless, unprofitable, unserviceable, (to) useless, (to) unprofitable, (to) unserviceable
From the root: ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone that is useless, unprofitable, or unserviceable. It implies a lack of benefit or effectiveness. It is often used to describe things that are not fit for their intended purpose or people who are not contributing positively.
Inflection: Singular, Dative, Masculine, Feminine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G0890 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 3:17
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.
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΑ — useless, unprofitable, worthless, useless things, unprofitable things, worthless things
- 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
- ἈΧΡΗΣΤΩΝ — of useless, of unprofitable, of worthless, of good-for-nothing
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