Lexicon astériktos: unstable, unsettled Original Word: ἀστήρικτος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: astériktos Phonetic Spelling: (as-tay'-rik-tos) Short Definition: unsteady, unstable Definition: (lit: unpropped), unsteady, unstable, unsettled. HELPS word-Studies 793 astḗriktos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 4741 /stērízō "confirm") – properly, not established (unstable), describing someone who (literally) does not have a staff to lean on – hence, a person who can not be relied on because they are not steady (do not remain fixed, i.e. unstable). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and stérizóDefinitionunstable, unsettled NASB Translationunstable (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 793: ἀστήρικτοςἀστήρικτος, ἀστηρικτον ( στηρίζω), unstable, unsteadfast: 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Peter 3:16. (Anthol. Pal. 6, 203, 11.)
Strong's unstable. From a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of sterizo; unfixed, i.e. (figuratively) vacillating -- unstable. see GREEK a see GREEK sterizo |
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