ἈΧΡΕΙΟΝ, ἀχρειον
ACHREION, achreion
Sounds Like: akh-REH-ee-on
Translations: useless, unprofitable, worthless, a useless thing, an unprofitable thing
From the root: ἈΧΡΕΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes something or someone as useless, unprofitable, or worthless. It can be used to describe objects that are broken or no longer serve their purpose, or people who are considered unproductive or of no value. It often implies a lack of benefit or advantage.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G0888 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:21
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 11:27
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 24:117
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:15
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 25:30
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
- ἈΧΡΕΙΟΣ — unprofitable, useless, worthless, good for nothing, a useless one
- ἈΧΡΕΙΟΥ — (of) useless, (of) unprofitable, (of) worthless
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