adjective
astorgos
Strong’sG794
unloving, devoid of affection
stem astorg-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 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.
* ἄστοργος, -ον
(< στοργή, family affection, love of kindred, v.s. ἀγάπη),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G794 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidas'-tor-gos
hard-hearted towards kindred
Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of στέργω (to cherish affectionately);
King Jameswithout natural affection.
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
without natural affection, ἄστοργος ψυχήνRefs 4th c.BC+the heartless one, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἄ. θάνατος cruel, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 without attraction, Refs 1st c.AD+:—also ἀστόργης (sic) 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.
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 | astorgos | astorgas | astorgem | astorgois1×ἄστοργοι | astorgais | astorgeim |
| object accusative | astorgon | astorgan | astorgoin1×ἀστόργους | astorgain | ||
| direct address vocative | astorgor | astorgar | astorgoir | astorgair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | astorgou | astorgau | astorgeu | astorgoiu | astorgaiu | astorgeiu |
| to, for dative | astorgo | astorga | astorge | astorgoi | astorgai | astorgei |
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
astorg 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
astorgois“unloving”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Timothy 3:3astorgois, aspondois, diabolois, akratois, anēmerois, afilagathois,unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without …
astorgoin“heartless”objectaccusative plural1×
Romans 1:31asunetoin, asunthetoin, astorgoin, aneleēmonoin;They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.