adverb
akribōs
Strong’sG199
carefully, exactly, strictly
stem akribō-5 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 booksnever changes form
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.
ἀκριβῶς
adv.(< ἀκριβής), [in LXX: De 19:18 (יָטַב), Da TH 7:19 (יְצֵב), Ez 39:14, Wi 19:18, Si 18:29;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G199 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidak-ree-boce'
exactly
Fromadverb from the same as G196;
King Jamescircumspectly, diligently, perfect(-ly).
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
exact, accurate, precise, Refs 5th c.BC+; τριταῖος returning precisely at its time, Refs; γαλήνη complete calm, Refs 4th c.AD+
II of persons, precise, strict, δικασταίRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. τοῖς ὄμμασι sharp- sighted, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of arguments, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἀ., ={ἀκρίβεια}, Refs 5th c.BC+adverb -βῶς to a nicety, precisely, ἀ. εἰδέναι, ἐπίστασθαι, καθορᾶν, μαθεῖν, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἁπλῶς, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to τύπῳ (in outline, roughly), Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative -έστερονNT+5th c.BC+: superlative -έσταταRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. καὶ μόλις with greatest difficulty, Refs 1st c.AD+ —also οὐκ εἰς ἀκριβὲς ἦλθες at the right moment, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 in the strict sense of the word, ὁ ἀ. ἰατρόςRefs 5th c.BC+
II.2.b pure-bred, genuine, ΚόλχοςRefs 4th c.AD+
II.2.c Astron., true, opposed to φαινόμενος, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.3 parsimonious, stingy, ἀ. τοὺς τρόπουςRefs 4th c.BC+. adverb -βῶς, διαιτᾶσθαιRefs 5th c.BC+ —Rare except in _Attic dialect_, mostly Prose. (The sense points to ἄκρος as the first part of the word, but -ῑβης remains uncertain)
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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 2:8… autoin eis Bēthleem legata; Poreuirantois exetazavar akribōs peri teu paidieu; epan de heuriskaveia, …… Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you …
Luke 1:3dokata kami parakoloutharēnto anōthen pantei akribōs kathexēs si grafara, kratistor Theofilor,Therefore, having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it …
Acts 18:25… zesarōntos te pneume lalate kai didaskate akribōs teim peri tou Iēsu, epistorōntos monem …… in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only …
Ephesians 5:15Blepavōr oun akribōs pōs peripatavō, mē hōs asofois alla …Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk …
1 Thessalonians 5:2“very well”autois gar akribōs oidavē hoti hēmeras kuriou hōs kleptos …For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the …