apeiros

Strong’sG552

inexperienced, unskillful

stem apeir-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.

ἄπειρος, -ον

(< ἀ- neg., πεῖρα, trial), [in LXX: Nu 14:23, Za 11:15 (אֱוִילִי), Je 2:6 (עֲרָבָה)*;]

without experience of: c. gen. rei, He 5:13 (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 G552 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidap'-i-ros

inexperienced, i.e. ignorant

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G3984;

King Jamesunskilful.

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

ἄπειρος, ον,
(πεῖραρ, πέρας)
B boundless, infinite, σκότοςRefs 5th c.BC+; of number, countless, πλῆθοςRefs 5th c.BC+: comparative -ότεροςRefs 5th c.AD+; τὸ ἄ. the Infinite, as a first principle, Refs 4th c.BC+; especially in the system of Anaximander, Refs 3rd c.AD+; but τὰ ἄπειρα individuals, opposed to τὰ εἴδη, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἄπειρος, opposed to πεπερασμένος, Refs; εἰς ἄ. ἰέναι, προϊέναι, ἥκειν, etc., Refs 1st c.BC+; also, indefinite, ὕληRefs
B.2 in Trag., frequently of garments, etc., in which one is entangled past escape, i.e. without outlet, ἀμφίβληστρονRefs 5th c.BC+
B.3 endless, i.e. circular, ἀ. δακτύλιος a simple hoop-ring, ={ἄλιθος} Refs 4th c.BC+adverb -ρως, θρυφθῆναι into an infinite number of fragments, 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.

unskilled1×

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	apeiros1×ἄπειρος	apeiras	apeirem	apeirois	apeirais	apeireim
object accusative	apeiron	apeiran		apeiroin	apeirain
direct address vocative	apeiror	apeirar		apeiroir	apeirair
of, belonging to genitive	apeirou	apeirau	apeireu	apeiroiu	apeiraiu	apeireiu
to, for dative	apeiro	apeira	apeire	apeiroi	apeirai	apeirei

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

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

apeir 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

apeiros“unskilled”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 5:13“unskilled”pantos gar tos metecharōntos galakteu apeiros logou dikaiosunau, nēpios gar atō;For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.