2001 Translation

ACHRĒSTON, achrēston

Sounds Like: akh-RAY-ston

Translations: useless, unprofitable, worthless, a useless thing, an unprofitable thing

From the root: ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something that is not useful, beneficial, or profitable. It can refer to an object, a person, or an action that serves no good purpose or yields no advantage. It is often used to convey a sense of futility or worthlessness.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G0890 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:21, 1:164

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 1:10

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 9:14
• Book Five — 1:39, 9:19

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 130:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 56:290

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Maccabees — 7:5
• Wisdom — 2:11, 13:10, 16:29
• Hosea — 8:8

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Philemon — 1:11

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.

• 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
• 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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