alusitelés: unprofitable Original Word: ἀλυσιτελής, ές
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: alusitelés
Phonetic Spelling: (al-oo-sit-el-ace')
Short Definition: profitless, unprofitable
Definition: profitless, unprofitable, ruinous, detrimental.
255 alysitelḗs (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 3089 /lýō, "to loose") – properly, not able to hold together (cohere), i.e. "not profitable because lacking cohesion"; (figuratively) missing benefit because not complete (especially missing something essential). 255 /alysitelḗs ("unprofitable"), used only in Heb 13:17, describes the lost benefits from making a poor choice. [255 (alysitelḗs) is used in classical Greek (as in Hippocrates) as a technical medical term for "unfavorable" symptoms.] Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and lusiteleó (to pay dues, be useful)
Definition
unprofitable
NASB Word Usage
unprofitable (1).
STRONGS NT 255: ἀλυσιτελήςἀλυσιτελής, (ές (λυσιτελής, see λυσιτελέω), unprofitable, (Xenophon, vectig. 4, 6); by litotes, hurtful, pernicious: Hebrews 13:17. (From (Hippocrates) Xenophon down.) STRONGS NT 255a: ἄλφα ἄλφα, τό, indeclinable: Revelation 1:8; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:13. See A.
unprofitable. From a (as a negative particle) and the base of lusitelei; gainless, i.e. (by implication) pernicious -- unprofitable. see GREEK a see GREEK lusitelei
ἄλογον — 1 Occ.
ἀλόης — 1 Occ.
ἀλὶ — 1 Occ.
ἁλυκὸν — 1 Occ.
ἀλυπότερος — 1 Occ.
ἁλύσει — 2 Occ.
ἁλύσεις — 2 Occ.
ἁλύσεσι — 1 Occ.
ἁλύσεσιν — 3 Occ.
ἅλυσιν — 3 Occ.
Ἁλφαίου — 5 Occ.
ἅλωνα — 2 Occ.
ἀλώπεκες — 2 Occ.
ἀλώπεκι — 1 Occ.
ἅλωσιν — 1 Occ.
ἅμα — 10 Occ.
ἀμαθεῖς — 1 Occ.
ἀμαράντινον — 1 Occ.
ἀμάραντον — 1 Occ.
ἁμάρτανε — 2 Occ.
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