ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ, ἀχρηστος
ACHRĒSTOS, achrēstos
Sounds Like: akh-RAY-stos
Translations: useless, unprofitable, unserviceable, good for nothing
From the root: ἈΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone that is useless, unprofitable, or unserviceable. It is a compound word formed from the negative prefix ἀ- (a-) meaning 'not' and the word χρηστός (chrēstos) meaning 'useful' or 'good'. It can be used to describe objects that have no practical value or individuals who are unproductive or morally worthless.
Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G0890 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 2:61
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 5 — 1:6
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 3 — 6:7
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
- 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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