astēriktos

Strong’sG793

unsteady, unstable

stem astērikt-2 times in the New Testament2 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.

*† ἀ-στήρικτος, -ον

(< στηρίζω),

unstable, unsettled: II Pe 2:14 3:16.†

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

Strong’s G793 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas-tay'-rik-tos

unfixed, i.e. (figuratively) vacillating

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G4741;

King Jamesunstable.

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

ἀστήρικτος, ον,
not supported by a staff, Refs 1st c.AD+; unstable, NT+2nd c.AD+; not remaining still, of persons, Refs 4th c.AD+; of water,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.

unstable2×

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	astēriktos	astēriktas	astēriktem	astēriktois1×ἀστήρικτοι	astēriktais	astērikteim
object accusative	astērikton	astēriktan		astēriktoin	astēriktain1×ἀστηρίκτους
direct address vocative	astēriktor	astēriktar		astēriktoir	astēriktair
of, belonging to genitive	astēriktou	astēriktau	astērikteu	astēriktoiu	astēriktaiu	astērikteiu
to, for dative	astērikto	astērikta	astērikte	astēriktoi	astēriktai	astēriktei

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

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

astērikt 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

astēriktois“unstable”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Peter 3:16… dusnoēteim tineim, heim tois amathois kai astēriktois streblalō hōs kai tain loipain grafain …… hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the …

astēriktain“unstable”objectaccusative plural1×

2 Peter 2:14… moichalidau kai akatapaustoin hamartau, deleazarōntois psuchain astēriktain, kardian gumnazorēntan pleonexiau echarōntois, katarau tekneim,… is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts …