Lexicon aneklalétos: unspeakable Original Word: ἀνεκλάλητος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: aneklalétos Phonetic Spelling: (an-ek-lal'-ay-tos) Short Definition: unspeakable Definition: unspeakable. HELPS word-Studies 412 aneklálētos (from 1 /A "not" and 1583 /eklaléō, "fully tell") – properly, unable to fully describe or report; impossible to communicate (convey) adequately by words; hence, unutterable, inexpressible (used only in 1 Pet 1:8). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and eklaleóDefinitionunspeakable NASB Translationinexpressible (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 412: ἀνεκλάλητοςἀνεκλάλητος, ἀνεκλαλητον (alpha privative and ἐκλαλέω), unspeakable: 1 Peter 1:8 (to which words are inadequate). (( Dioscorides ( ?) medicam., p. 93, Kühn edition); Heliodorus 6, 15, p. 252 (296); and in ecclesiastical writings.)
Strong's inexpressible From a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of eklaleo; not spoken out, i.e. (by implication) unutterable -- unspeakable. see GREEK a see GREEK eklaleo |
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