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Strong's #172 - ἄκακος
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- without guile or fraud, harmless, free from guilt
- fearing no evil from others, distrusting no one
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ἄκᾰκ-ος, ον,
I
1. unknowing of ill, guileless, A. Pers. 663 (lyr.), Pl. Ti. 91d, Romans 16:18.
2. innocent, simple (cf. εὐήθης), D. 47.46, 82; ἄ. ἀνθρώπων τρόπος Anaxil. 33. Adv. -κως D. 47.50.
II
1. unharmed, Sapph. 149.
2. unadulterated, POxy. 142 (vi A. D.).
ἄκακος, (κακός);
a. without guile or fraud, harmless; free from guilt: Hebrews 7:26; (cf. Clement, fragment 8, Jacobson edition (Lightfoot S. Clement of Rome etc., p. 219): ἄκακος ὁ πατήρ πνεῦμα ἔδωκεν ἄκακον).
b. fearing no evil from others, distrusting no one, (cf. English guileless): Romans 16:18. ((Aeschylus) Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, others; the Sept.) (Cf. Trench, § lvi.; Tittmann i., p. 27f.)
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ἄ -κακος , -ον ,
[in LXX for H6612, H8535, etc.;]
(a) as in cl. (Æsch., Plat., al.), of persons, simple, guileless: Romans 16:18, Hebrews 7:26 (cf. Cremer, 327);
(b) of things, undamaged (?MM, VGT, s.v.).†
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BGU IV. 1015.11 f. (A.D. 222–3) λ [άχαν ]ον νέον νέον καθαρὸν ἄδο ̣λ ̣(ον) . [. . ἄ ]κακ [ον ] must have a passive sense ";undamaged."; So P Oxy I. 142.5 (A.D. 534), a similar formula. For ἄ. = ";simple"; rather than ";innocent"; in Romans 16:18, see the quotations from Wetstein recalled by Field Notes, p. 166.
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