akakos

Strong’sG172

innocent, guileless, simple

stem akak-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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-κακος, -ον,

[in LXX for פְּתִי, תָּם, etc.;]

(a) as in cl. (Æsch., Plat., al.), of persons, simple, guileless: Ro 16:18, He 7:26 (cf. Cremer, 327);

(b) of things, undamaged (? MM, VGT, s.v.).†

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

Strong’s G172 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidak'-ak-os

not bad, i.e. (objectively) innocent or (subjectively) unsuspecting

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G2556;

King Jamesharmless, simple.

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

ἄκᾰκ-ος, ον,
unknowing of ill, guileless, NT+5th c.BC+
2 innocent, simple (compare εὐήθης), Refs 4th c.BC+. adverb -κωςRefs 4th c.BC+
II unharmed, Refs 7th c.BC+
II.2 unadulterated, Refs 6th c.AD+

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.

innocent1×unsuspecting1×

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	akakos1×ἄκακος	akakas	akakem	akakois	akakais	akakeim
object accusative	akakon	akakan		akakoin	akakain
direct address vocative	akakor	akakar		akakoir	akakair
of, belonging to genitive	akakou	akakau	akakeu	akakoiu1×ἀκάκων	akakaiu	akakeiu
to, for dative	akako	akaka	akake	akakoi	akakai	akakei

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

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

akak 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

akakos“innocent”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 7:26… gar ni kai prepate archierevos, hosios, akakos, amiantos, chōrizorēntos apo toiu hamartōloiu, kai …… befits us — One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and …

akakoiu“unsuspecting”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Romans 16:18“unsuspecting”… kai eulogiau exapatalō tain kardiain toiu akakoiu.… smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.