adjective
atopos
Strong’sG824
improper, unrighteous, perverse
stem atop-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
ἄ-τοπος, -ον
(< τόπος), [in LXX: Jb 4:8 11:11, Pr 30:20 (24:55), al., for אָוֶן, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G824 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
out of place, out of the way: hence,
1 unwonted, extraordinary, of symptoms, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. ἁδονάRefs 5th c.BC+
2 strange, paradoxical, δοῦλοι τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπων slaves to every new paradox, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄτοπα τῆς σμικρολογίας absurd pettinesses, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄτοπόν ἐστι, with infinitive, Refs 5th c.BC+
2.b of persons, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. φαγεῖν given to strange food, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 unnatural, disgusting, foul, πνεῦμαRefs 5th c.BC+; monstrous, ἀτοπώτατον πρᾶγμα ἐξευρώνRefs 5th c.BC+; later, wicked, wrong, LXX+NT; of persons, opposed to χρηστός, Refs 1st c.BC+; of things, bad, harmful, NTadverb -πως in an unfavourable position, κεῖσθαι, of planets, Vett. Val.63.12.
4 adverb -πως marvellously or absurdly, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. καθίζων, ={ἀνυπόπτως}, Refs 5th c.BC+
II non-spatial, τῆς ἰδέας μενούσης ἐν ἀτόπῳ αὐτὸ τόπους γεννῆσανRefs 3rd c.AD+adverb -πως non-spatially, opposed to τοπικῶς, Refs 3rd 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | atopos | atopas | atopem3×ἄτοπον | atopois | atopais | atopeim |
| object accusative | atopon | atopan | atopoin | atopain | ||
| direct address vocative | atopor | atopar | atopoir | atopair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | atopou | atopau | atopeu | atopoiu1×ἀτόπων | atopaiu | atopeiu |
| to, for dative | atopo | atopa | atope | atopoi | atopai | atopei |
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
atop 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
atopem“wrong”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Luke 23:41… heiu prassana apolabanō; houtos de oudenem atopem prassata.… But this man has done nothing wrong.”
Acts 28:6… de autoiu prosdokarōntoiu kai theōrarōntoiu mēdenem atopem eis auton genorōntem, metaballerantois legale auton …… a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their …
Acts 25:5… ei tinem atō en to andro atopem katēgoralōr autou.… if this man has done anything wrong, let some of your leaders come …
atopoiu“wicked”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
2 Thessalonians 3:2kai hina ruineia apo toiu atopoiu kai ponēroiu anthrōpoiu, ouk gar pantoiu …… that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone …