Lexicon adolos: guileless, genuine Original Word: ἄδολος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: adolos Phonetic Spelling: (ad'-ol-os) Short Definition: pure Definition: unadulterated, pure, guileless. HELPS word-Studies 97 ádolos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "without" and 1388 /dólos, "bait, deceit") – properly, not-caught (in a trap), referring to being free from fraud (trickery, deceit); without craftiness (hidden, "mixed motives"). [97 (ádolos) in the papyri means "unfalsified" and is also used of unmixed liquids, free from adulteration or fraudulent claim (see MM).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and dolosDefinitionguileless, genuine NASB Translationpure (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 97: ἄδολοςἄδολος, ( δόλος) (from Pindar down), guileless; of things, unadulterated, pure: of milk, 1 Peter 2:2. (Cf. Trench, § lvi.)
Strong's undeceitful, sincere. From a (as a negative particle}; and dolos; undeceitful, i.e. (figuratively) unadulterated -- sincere. see GREEK a see GREEK dolos |
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