Lexicon aspondos: without libation, i.e. without truce, hence admitting of no truce Original Word: ἄσπονδος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: aspondos Phonetic Spelling: (as'-pon-dos) Short Definition: implacable Definition: implacable, not to be bound by truce. HELPS word-Studies 786 áspondos (an adjective which is the negation of spondē, "a libation-sacrifice" used for making treaties and covenants) – properly, unable to please (placate) someone; implacable. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and spondé (a libation) Definitionwithout libation, i.e. without truce, hence admitting of no truce NASB Translationirreconcilable (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 786: ἄσπονδοςἄσπονδος, ἀσπονδον ( σπονδή a libation, which, as a kind of sacrifice, accompanied the making of treaties and compacts; cf. Latin spondere); (from Thucydides down); 1. without a treaty or covenant; of things not mutually agreed upon, e. g. abstinence from hostilities, Thucydides 1, 37, etc. 2. that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable (in this sense from Aeschylus down; especially in the phrase ἄσπονδος πόλεμος, Dem. pro cor., p. 314, 16; Polybius 1, 65, 6; (Philo de sacrif. § 4); Cicero, ad Att. 9, 10, 5; (cf. Trench, § lii.)): joined with ἄστοργος, Romans 1:31 Rec.; 2 Timothy 3:3.
Strong's implacable, irreconcilable From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of spendo; literally, without libation (which usually accompanied a treaty), i.e. (by implication) truceless -- implacable, truce-breaker. see GREEK a see GREEK spendo |
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