Lexicon atopos: out of place, strange Original Word: ἄτοπος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: atopos Phonetic Spelling: (at'-op-os) Short Definition: improper, unrighteous, perverse Definition: (lit: out of place, unusual, unbecoming), improper, unrighteous, perverse. HELPS word-Studies 824 átopos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 5117 /tópos, "place") – properly, out of place, i.e. odd (out of the ordinary); (figuratively) unsuitable because "warped" (not "falling in line with" needed expectations or the norm); strange, queer; out of line (kilter); amiss. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and toposDefinitionout of place, strange NASB Translationperverse (1), unusual (1), wrong (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 824: ἄτοποςἄτοπος, ἄτοπον ( τόπος), out of place; not befitting, unbecoming (so in Greek writings from Thucydides down; very often in Plato); in later Greek in an ethical sense, improper, wicked: Luke 23:41 ( ἄτοπον τί πράσσειν, as in Job 27:6; 2 Macc. 14:23); Acts 25:5 L T Tr WH; (the Sept. for אָוֶן. Job 4:8; Job 11:11, etc. Josephus, Antiquities 6, 5, 6; Plutarch, de aud. poët. c. 3 φαῦλα and ἄτοπα); of men: 2 Thessalonians 3:2 ( ἀτοποι καί πονηροί; Luth. unartig, more correctly unrighteous (( iniquus), A. V. unreasonable, cf. Ellicott at the passage)). inconvenient, harmful: Acts 28:6 μηδέν ἄτοπον εἰς αὐτόν γινόμενον, no injury, no harm coming to him ( Thucydides 2, 49; Josephus, Antiquities 11, 5, 2; Herodian, 4, 11, 7 (4, Bekker edition)).
Strong's amiss, harmful, unreasonable. From a (as a negative particle) and topos; out of place, i.e. (figuratively) improper, injurious, wicked -- amiss, harm, unreasonable. see GREEK a see GREEK topos |
