akōnos

Strong’sG210

unwilling

stem akōn-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.

ἄκων (Attic contr. for ἀέκων), -ουσα, -ον

(< ἀ- neg., ἕκων, willing), [in LXX: Jb 14:17, II Mac 11:12*;]

unwilling: I Co 9:17.†

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

Strong’s G210 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidak'-ohn

unwilling

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G1635;

King Jamesagainst the will.

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

ἀέκων,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect; Attic dialect and Trag. contraction ἄκων [ᾱ], ουσα, ον (uncontraction form also in Refs 4th c.BC+, sometimes found in codices of Refs 5th c.BC+:— involuntary, constrained, of persons, ἀέκοντος ἐμεῖοRefs 8th c.BC+; opposed to βουλόμενος, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὼ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην (variant{ἄκοντε}) Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀέκουσι (variant{ἀεκούσια}) δάκρυα παραρρεῖRefs 5th c.BC+: contraction first in Refs; ἄκοντος Διός invito Jove, Refs 6th c.BC+adverb ἀκόντως unwillingly, ὁμολογεῖνRefs 5th c.BC+
II poetical, like{ἀκούσιος}, of acts or their consequences, involuntary, κακὰ ἑκόντα κοὐκ ἄ.Refs 5th 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.

unwillingly1×

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	akōnos1×ἄκων	akōnas	akōnem	akōnois	akōnais	akōneim
object accusative	akōnon	akōnan		akōnoin	akōnain
direct address vocative	akōnor	akōnar		akōnoir	akōnair
of, belonging to genitive	akōnou	akōnau	akōneu	akōnoiu	akōnaiu	akōneiu
to, for dative	akōno	akōna	akōne	akōnoi	akōnai	akōnei

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

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

akōn 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

akōnos“unwillingly”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Corinthians 9:17“unwillingly”… houtem prassamō, misthon echamō; ei de akōnos, oikonomian pisteuomē.… voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.