adjective
acheiropoiētos
Strong’sG886
not made by hand, not handmade
stem acheiropoiēt-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† ἀ-χειρο-ποίητος, -ον
(< χειροποίητος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G886 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
not made by hands, of buildings and statues, NT; ἀ. περιτομή, i.e. spiritual, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | acheiropoiētos | acheiropoiētas | acheiropoiētem | acheiropoiētois | acheiropoiētais | acheiropoiēteim |
| object accusative | acheiropoiēton1×ἀχειροποίητον | acheiropoiētan1×ἀχειροποίητον | acheiropoiētoin | acheiropoiētain | ||
| direct address vocative | acheiropoiētor | acheiropoiētar | acheiropoiētoir | acheiropoiētair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | acheiropoiētou | acheiropoiētau | acheiropoiēteu | acheiropoiētoiu | acheiropoiētaiu | acheiropoiēteiu |
| to, for dative | acheiropoiēto | acheiropoiēta1×ἀχειροποιήτῳ | acheiropoiēte | acheiropoiētoi | acheiropoiētai | acheiropoiētei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
acheiropoiēt is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
acheiropoiēton“not made by hands”objectaccusative singular1×
Mark 14:58“not made by hands”… cheiropoiēton kai dia treis hēmeraiu alloson acheiropoiēton oikodomami;… man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is …
acheiropoiētan“not made with hands”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Corinthians 5:1“not made with hands”… kataluiteia, oikodoman ek theou echanō oikian acheiropoiētan aiōnian en toi ouranoi.… dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not …
acheiropoiēta“made without hands”to, fordative singular1×
Colossians 2:11“made without hands”en ho kai peritemiva peritoma acheiropoiēta en ta apekdusia teu sōmeu tau …In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and …