adēlōs

Strong’sG84

out of sight, uncertainly

stem adēlō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form

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.

* ἀδήλως

(< ἄδηλος),

adv. uncertainly: of direction, I Co 9:26.†

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

Strong’s G84 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidad-ay'-loce

uncertainly

Fromadverb from G82;

King Jamesuncertainly.

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

Included with: ἄδηλ-ος, ον,
unseen, invisible, of a fish, ποιεῖν ἑαυτὸν ἄ.Refs 4th c.BC+; ἄ. χιτών, of the hyaloid membrane of the eye, [Refs 2nd c.AD+; unknown, obscure, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐὰν δὲ.. ἄ. ὁ κτείνας ᾖ Refs; of troops, ἄ. τοῖς πολεμίοιςRefs 5th c.BC+
II mostly of things, ἄ. θάνατοι death by an unknown hand, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. ἔχθρα secret enmity, Refs 5th c.BC+; ῥεῖ πᾶν ἄδηλον melts all to nothing, Refs 5th c.BC+; inscrutable, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b neuter, ἄδηλόν [ἐστι] εἰ.. it is uncertain whether.., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. μή.. Refs 5th c.BC+; also ἄ. agreeing with the subject (like δίκαιός εἰμι), παῖδες ἄ. ὁποτέρων, ={ἄδηλον ὁποτέρων παῖδές εἰσιν}, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀδήλοις.. πῶς ἀποβήσεται, ={ἃ ἄ. ἐστι πῶς ἀ}., Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 not evident to sense, ὄψις τῶν ἀ. τὰ φαινόμεναRefs 5th c.BC+; opposed to φανερόν, Refs 1st c.BC+; opposed to ἐναργές,Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 unintelligible, φωνήNT
II.4 unproved, Refs
III adverb -λως secretly, Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -όταταRefs

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.

aimlessly1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

adēlōs1×

1 Corinthians 9:26mis toinun houtōs trechamō hōs ouk adēlōs, houtōs pukteuamō hōs ouk aeron derarōntos;Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I …