Lexicon anegklétos: not to be called to account, unreprovable Original Word: ἀνέγκλητος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: anegklétos Phonetic Spelling: (an-eng'-klay-tos) Short Definition: irreproachable, blameless Definition: irreproachable, blameless. HELPS word-Studies 410 anégklētos (from 1 /A "not" and 1458 /egkaléō, "making legal charges against someone in a court of law") – properly, not convictable when a person is properly scrutinized – i.e. tried with correct logic ("legal reasoning"), i.e. logic approved in a court of law. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and egkaleóDefinitionnot to be called to account, unreprovable NASB Translationabove reproach (2), beyond reproach (2), blameless (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 410: ἀνέγκλητοςἀνέγκλητος, ἀνέγκλητον (alpha privative and ἐγκαλέω, which see), that cannot be called to account, unreprovable, unaccused, blameless: 1 Corinthians 1:8; Colossians 1:22; 1 Timothy 3:10; Titus 1:6f (3Macc. 5:31; Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Aristotle, others) (Cf. Trench, § ciii.)
Strong's blameless. From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of egkaleo; unaccused, i.e. (by implication) irreproachable -- blameless. see GREEK a see GREEK egkaleo |
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