Lexicon akakos: guileless Original Word: ἄκακος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akakos Phonetic Spelling: (ak'-ak-os) Short Definition: innocent, guileless, simple Definition: innocent, guileless, simple. HELPS word-Studies 172 ákakos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 2556 /kakós, "malignant") – properly, not harmful, describing someone innocent, down to their very intentions (motives), i.e. a person without any desire to hurt (harm). 172/akakos ("a character without guile") means being constitutionally harmless, free from the desire to inflict harm (grief, hurt). [It is ultimately the negated form of 2556 /kakós ("a rotten disposition, bent on inflicting harm").] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and kakosDefinitionguileless NASB Translationinnocent (1), unsuspecting (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 172: ἄκακοςἄκακος, ( κακός); a. without guile or fraud, harmless; free from guilt: Hebrews 7:26; (cf. Clement, fragment 8, Jacobson edition (Lightfoot S. Clement of Rome etc., p. 219): ἄκακος ὁ πατήρ πνεῦμα ἔδωκεν ἄκακον). b. fearing no evil from others, distrusting no one, (cf. English guileless): Romans 16:18. ((Aeschylus) Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, others; the Sept.) (Cf. Trench, § lvi.; Tittmann i., p. 27f.)
Strong's harmless, simple, innocent. From a (as a negative particle) and kakos; not bad, i.e. (objectively) innocent or (subjectively) unsuspecting -- harmless, simple. see GREEK a see GREEK kakos |
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