noun · feminine
athetēsias
Strong’sG115
nullification, abrogation
stem athetēsi-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 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.
† ἀθέτησις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀθετέω), [in LXX, usually of unfaithful, rebellious action: I Ki 24:12 (פֶּשַׁע), Je 12:1 (בֶּגֶד), Da TH 9:7 (מַעַל), II Mac 14:28*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G115 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidath-et'-ay-sis
cancellation (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom G114;
King Jamesdisannulling, put away.
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
a setting aside, abolition, ἁμαρτίαςNT+2nd c.AD+; 'annulling' of a deed, Refs 1st c.AD+
II rejection (of a spurious passage), Refs 2nd c.AD+; generally, rejection, opposed to ἐποχή, Refs 1st c.BC+
III breach of faith, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | athetēsias1×ἀθέτησις | athetēsiais |
| object accusative | athetēsian1×ἀθέτησιν | athetēsiain |
| direct address vocative | athetēsiar | athetēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | athetēsiau | athetēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | athetēsia | athetēsiai |
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
athetēsia 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
athetēsias“set aside”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 7:18athetēsias men gar genotō proagarōntau entolau dia …So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless
athetēsian“put away”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 9:26“put away”… hapax epi sunteleia toiu aiōnoiu eis athetēsian hamartau dia tau thusiau autou fanerotē.… He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.