ataktos

Strong’sG813

disorderly, slack

stem atakt-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.

** ἄ-τακτος, -ον

(< τάσσω), [in LXX: III Mac 1:19*;]

out of order, out of place (Lat. inordinatus), freq. of soldiers not keeping the ranks, or an army in disarray (cf. III Mac 1:19); hence, metaph., irregular, disorderly (v. previous word): I Th 5:14.†

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

Strong’s G813 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidat'-ak-tos

unarranged, i.e. (by implication) insubordinate (religiously)

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G5021;

King Jamesunruly.

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

ἄτακτ-ος, ον,
not in battle-order, of troops, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 not at one's post, Refs 4th c.BC+
II undisciplined, disorderly, θόρυβοςRefs 5th c.BC+; irregular, πυρετόςRefs 5th c.BC+casual, Refs; of sensual excess, irregular, inordinate, ἡδοναί, Ἀφροδίτη, Refs 5th c.BC+; in Music, without rhythm, μελῳδίαιRefs 3rd c.AD+; in Medicine texts, irregular, σφυγμόςRefs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 uncivilized, lawless, βίοςRefs 5th c.BC+
II.3 in Mathematics texts, ἄτακτα προβλήματα indeterminate, not admitting of a definite solution, Refs 5th c.AD+
B adverb -τως in an irregular, disorderly manner, of troops, ἀ. καὶ οὐδενὶ κόσμῳ προσπίπτοντεςRefs 5th c.BC+
B.2 irregularly, of fevers, Refs 5th c.BC+
B.3 comparative ἀτακτοτέρως somewhat negligently, Refs 4th 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.

idle1×

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	ataktos	ataktas	ataktem	ataktois	ataktais	atakteim
object accusative	atakton	ataktan		ataktoin1×ἀτάκτους	ataktain
direct address vocative	ataktor	ataktar		ataktoir	ataktair
of, belonging to genitive	ataktou	ataktau	atakteu	ataktoiu	ataktaiu	atakteiu
to, for dative	atakto	atakta	atakte	ataktoi	ataktai	ataktei

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

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

atakt 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

ataktamō — ἀτακτέω, I behave disorderly

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ataktoin“idle”objectaccusative plural1×

1 Thessalonians 5:14“idle”parakalanō de vin, adelfoir, nouthetavōr toin ataktoin, paramuthovōr toin oligopsuchoin, antechovōr toiu asthenoiu, …And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be …