akatapaustos

Strong’sG180

not ceasing from, not abandoning

stem akatapaust-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.

*† ἀκατάπαυστος, -ον

(< καταπαύω),

that cannot cease, not to be restrained: c. gen. rei, II Pe 2:14, T, Tr. txt.†

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

Strong’s G180 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidak-at-ap'-ow-stos

unrefraining

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G2664;

King Jamesthat cannot cease.

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

ἀκατά-παυστος, ον,
not to be set at rest, incessant, Refs 2nd c.BC+; that cannotceasefrom, τινόςNTadverb -τωςRefs 3rd c.BC+
II not to be checked, irresistible, 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.

never stop1×

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	akatapaustos	akatapaustas	akatapaustem	akatapaustois	akatapaustais	akatapausteim
object accusative	akatapauston	akatapaustan		akatapaustoin1×ἀκαταπαύστους	akatapaustain
direct address vocative	akatapaustor	akatapaustar		akatapaustoir	akatapaustair
of, belonging to genitive	akatapaustou	akatapaustau	akatapausteu	akatapaustoiu	akatapaustaiu	akatapausteiu
to, for dative	akatapausto	akatapausta	akatapauste	akatapaustoi	akatapaustai	akatapaustei

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

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

akatapaust 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

akatapaustoin“never stop”objectaccusative plural1×

2 Peter 2:14“never stop”ofthalmoin echarōntois mestoin moichalidau kai akatapaustoin hamartau, deleazarōntois psuchain astēriktain, kardian gumnazorēntan …Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.