Lexicon automatos: acting of one's own will, of its own accord Original Word: αὐτόματος, η, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: automatos Phonetic Spelling: (ow-tom'-at-os) Short Definition: of its own accord Definition: of its own accord. HELPS word-Studies 844 autómatos (from 846 /autós, "self" and maō, "to be ready, eager" which forms the English term, "automatic") – properly, "automatic, self-prompted, ready to go"; inherently disposed; needing no external force (persuasion) to decide or to act. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom autos and perhaps a suff. mat- Definitionacting of one's own will, of its own accord NASB Translationitself (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 844: αὐτόματοςαὐτόματος, ἀυτοματον, and αὐτομάτη, ἀυτοματον (from αὐτός and μέμαα to desire eagerly, from the obsolete theme μάω), moved by one's own impulse, or acting without the instigation or intervention of another (from Homer down); often of the earth producing plants of itself, and of the plants themselves and fruits growing without culture; (on its adverbial use cf. Winer's Grammar, § 54, 2): Mark 4:28; ( Herodotus 2, 94; 8, 138; Plato, polit., p. 272 a.; ( Theophrastus, h., p. 2, 1); Diodorus 1, 8, etc. Leviticus 25:5, 11). of gates opening of their own accord: Acts 12:10 (so in Homer, Iliad 5, 749; Xenophon, Hell. 6, 4, 7; Apoll. Rh. 4, 41; Plutarch, Timol. 12; Nonnus, Dionysius 44, 21; (Dio Cassio, 44, 17)).
Strong's of own accord, of self. From autos and the same as maten; self-moved ("automatic"), i.e. Spontaneous -- of own accord, of self. see GREEK autos see GREEK maten |
