Lexicon alusitelés: unprofitable Original Word: ἀλυσιτελής, έςPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: alusitelés Phonetic Spelling: (al-oo-sit-el-ace') Short Definition: profitless, unprofitable Definition: profitless, unprofitable, ruinous, detrimental. HELPS word-Studies 255 alysitelḗs (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 3089 /lýō, "to loose") – properly, not able to hold together (cohere), i.e. "not profitable because lacking cohesion"; (figuratively) missing benefit because not complete (especially missing something essential). 255 /alysitelḗs ("unprofitable"), used only in Heb 13:17, describes the lost benefits from making a poor choice. [255 (alysitelḗs) is used in classical Greek (as in Hippocrates) as a technical medical term for "unfavorable" symptoms.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and lusiteleó (to pay dues, be useful) Definitionunprofitable NASB Translationunprofitable (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 255: ἀλυσιτελήςἀλυσιτελής, (ές ( λυσιτελής, see λυσιτελέω), unprofitable, ( Xenophon, vectig. 4, 6); by litotes, hurtful, pernicious: Hebrews 13:17. (From ( Hippocrates) Xenophon down.) STRONGS NT 255a: ἄλφαἄλφα, τό, indeclinable: Revelation 1:8; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:13. See A.
Strong's unprofitable. From a (as a negative particle) and the base of lusitelei; gainless, i.e. (by implication) pernicious -- unprofitable. see GREEK a see GREEK lusitelei |
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