adjective
akeraios
Strong’sG185
simple, unsophisticated, innocent
stem akerai-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
** ἀκέραιος, -ον
(< κεράννυμι), [in LXX: Es 8:13*;]
SYN.: ἄδολος, ἄκακος, ἁπλοῦς (cf. Ellic. on Phl 2:15; Tr., Syn., §lvi).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G185 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(feminine -αία Refs 5th c.BC+, pure, unmixed, ὕδωρRefs 4th c.BC+; untouched, γῆ, νομή, Refs 5th c.BC+; unalloyed, ἡδοναίRefs 4th c.BC+
2 of persons, pure in blood, Refs 5th c.BC+
II unharmed, unravaged, ἀ. ἀπολαμβάνειν τὴν πόλινRefs 5th c.BC+; δύναμις, of an army, in full force, Refs 5th c.BC+; of troops, fresh, Refs 5th c.BC+; of property, untouched, οὐσίαRefs 4th c.BC+; ἐᾶν τι ἀσινὲς καὶ ἀ. Refs; of a person, Persae.Refs
II.2 metaphorically, pure, inviolate, ἀκέραιον ὡς σῴσαιμι Μενέλεῳ λέχοςRefs 5th c.BC+; [τέχνη] ἀβλαβὴς καὶ ἀ. Refs 5th c.BC+; complete, perfect, φαντασίαιRefs 2nd c.BC+
II.3 of persons, uncontaminated, guileless, Refs 5th c.BC+; incorruptible, κριτήςRefs 5th c.BC+; unprejudiced, with an open mind, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.4 ἐξ ἀκεραίου anew, Refs; while matters are undecided, Refs; ἀκέραιον ἐᾶν leave alone, Refs; εἰς -ον ἀποκαθιστάναι, = Latin in integrum restituere, Refsadverb -ως, of payment, in full, Refs 1st c.BC+; unreservedly, Refs 1st c.BC+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | akeraios | akeraias | akeraiem | akeraiois2×ἀκέραιοι | akeraiais | akeraieim |
| object accusative | akeraion | akeraian | akeraioin1×ἀκεραίους | akeraiain | ||
| direct address vocative | akeraior | akeraiar | akeraioir | akeraiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | akeraiou | akeraiau | akeraieu | akeraioiu | akeraiaiu | akeraieiu |
| to, for dative | akeraio | akeraia | akeraie | akeraioi | akeraiai | akeraiei |
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
akerai 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
akeraiois“innocent”subjectnominative plural2×
Matthew 10:16… oun fronimois hōs tois ofiois kai akeraiois hōs tais peristerais.… as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Philippians 2:15“innocent”hina geneveia amemptois kai akeraiois, tekneim theou amōmeim mesem geneau skoliau …so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which …
akeraioin“innocent”objectaccusative plural1×
Romans 16:19… vin sofoin arō eis tem agathem, akeraioin de eis tem kakosem.… wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.