noun · feminine
afelotas
Strong’sG858
simplicity, sincerity
stem afelot-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
*† ἀφελότης, -ητος, ἡ
= cl. ἀφέλεια (v. MM, s.v.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G858 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidaf-el-ot'-ace
smoothness, i.e. (figuratively) simplicity
Fromfrom a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and φέλλος (in the sense of a stone as stubbing the foot);
King Jamessingleness.
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
simplicity, unworldliness, 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | afelotas | afelotais |
| object accusative | afelotan | afelotain |
| direct address vocative | afelotar | afelotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | afelotau | afelotaiu |
| to, for dative | afelota1×ἀφελότητι | afelotai |
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
afelota 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
afelota“simplicity”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 2:46“simplicity”… arton, metalabale trofēau en agalliasia kai afelota kardiau,… to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and …