achréstos: useless Original Word: ἄχρηστος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: achréstos
Phonetic Spelling: (akh'-race-tos)
Short Definition: unprofitable, useless
Definition: unprofitable, useless, detrimental.
890 áxrēstos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 5532 /xreía, "usefulness") – properly, "not useful," i.e. failing to execute duty and therefore unprofitable (useless); unuseful, lacking utility (used only in Phm 11). Phm 11: "Formerly he was useless (890 /áxrēstos) to you, but now he is indeed useful (2173 /eúxrēstos) to you and to me." [Both terms come from the same root (5532 /xreía, "profitable").] Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and chréstos
Definition
useless
NASB Word Usage
useless (1).NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries
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All rights reserved Lockman.org unprofitable, uselessFrom a (as a negative particle) and chrestos; inefficient, i.e. (by implication) detrimental -- unprofitable. see GREEK a see GREEK chrestos
ἀχάριστοι — 1 Occ.
ἀχαρίστους — 1 Occ.
Ἀχίμ — 2 Occ.
ἀχειροποιήτῳ — 1 Occ.
ἀχειροποίητον — 2 Occ.
ἀχλὺς — 1 Occ.
ὁμίχλαι — 1 Occ.
ἀχρεῖοί — 1 Occ.
ἀχρεῖον — 1 Occ.
ἠχρεώθησαν — 1 Occ.
ἄχρι — 44 Occ.
ἄχρις — 5 Occ.
ἄχυρον — 2 Occ.
ἀψευδὴς — 1 Occ.
ἄψινθον — 1 Occ.
Ἄψινθος — 1 Occ.
ἄψυχα — 1 Occ.
Βάαλ — 1 Occ.
Βαβυλὼν — 6 Occ.
Βαβυλῶνι — 1 Occ.
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