achrēstos

Strong’sG890

unprofitable, useless

stem achrēst-once in the New Testament1 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.

ἄ-χρηστος, -ον,

[in LXX: Ho 8:8 (חֵפֶץ אַיִן), Wi 2:11, Si 16:1, al.;]

useless, unserviceable: opp. to εὔχρηστος, Phm 11.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G890 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidakh'-race-tos

inefficient, i.e. (by implication) detrimental

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G5543;

King Jamesunprofitable.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἄχρησ-τος, ον,
useless, unprofitable, μετάνοιαRefs 5th c.BC+; χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα useless if you try to use them, Refs 5th c.BC+without effect, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. τινι useless to a person, Refs 5th c.BC+; τῇ πόλειRefs 5th c.BC+
2 ={ἀχρεῖος} (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek), useless, do-nothing, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἄ. πολῖταιRefs 4th c.BC+; σοφισταί probable reading in Refs 5th c.BC+; non-effective, unwarlike, Eun.Hist.p.239D.; so (with a pun—not having received an oracle) Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -τως, ἔχειν πρός τιRefs 4th c.BC+
II unkind, cruel, θεοίRefs 5th c.BC+
III active, making no use of, with dative, ξυνέσει τ᾽ ἄχρηστον τῇ φύσει τε λείπεταιRefs 5th c.BC+
IV not used, i.e. new, ἱμάτιαRefs 2nd c.AD+
IV.2 obsolete, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.3 not to be used, unseemly, Refs

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.

useless1×

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	achrēstos	achrēstas	achrēstem	achrēstois	achrēstais	achrēsteim
object accusative	achrēston1×ἄχρηστον	achrēstan		achrēstoin	achrēstain
direct address vocative	achrēstor	achrēstar		achrēstoir	achrēstair
of, belonging to genitive	achrēstou	achrēstau	achrēsteu	achrēstoiu	achrēstaiu	achrēsteiu
to, for dative	achrēsto	achrēsta	achrēste	achrēstoi	achrēstai	achrēstei

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

achrēststem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

achrēst 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

achrēston“useless”objectaccusative singular1×

Philemon 1:11ton pote si achrēston nuni de si kai mi euchrēston,Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has …