Lexicon akón: unwilling Original Word: ἄκων, ἄκουσα, ἆκονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akón Phonetic Spelling: (ak'-ohn) Short Definition: unwilling Definition: unwilling, generally used where English would express by an adverb: unwillingly. HELPS word-Studies 210 ákōn (from 1 /A "not" and 1635 /hekṓn, "willing, in voluntary accord") – properly, unwilling, needing to be compelled (used only in 1 Cor 9:17). [210 (ákōn) describes someone who does not share the same mind (view), i.e. is not of the same will (intention).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origincontr. of alpha (as a neg. prefix) and hekónDefinitionunwilling NASB Translationagainst my will (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 210: ἄκωνἄκων, ἄκουσα, ἄκον (contracted from ἀέκων, alpha privative and ἕκων willing), not of one's own will, unwilling: 1 Corinthians 9:17. (Very frequent among the Greeks.)
Strong's unwilling From a (as a negative particle) and hekon; unwilling -- against the will. see GREEK a see GREEK hekon |
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