haplōs

Strong’sG574

simply, sincerely

stem haplō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form

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.

ἁπλῶς,

adv.

(< ἁπλοῦς), [in LXX: Pr 10:9 (בַּתֹּם), Wi 16:27, II Mac 6:6*;]

simply, sincerely, graciously: Ja 1:5. ("Later writers comprehend under the one word the whole magnanimous and honourable type of character in which... singleness of mind is the central feature"—Hort, Ja., 1:5)†

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

Strong’s G574 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhap-loce'

bountifully;

Fromadverb from G573 (in the objective sense of G572);

King Jamesliberally.

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

ἁπλ-ῶς,
adverb of ἁπλοῦς, singly, in one way, μένειν ἁ. ἐν τῇ αὑτοῦ μορφῇRefs 5th c.BC+; ἁ. λέγεσθαι in one sense, opposed to πολλαχῶς, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἁ. λεγόμενα, opposed to συμπλεκόμενα, Refs; opposed to κατ᾽ ἀλλήλων λέγεσθαι, without distinction of subject and predicate, MetaphoricalRefs; ἐσθλοὶ μὲν γὰρ ἁ. παντοδαπῶς δὲ κακοί Poët. cited in Refs
II simply, plainly, ἀλλ᾽ ἁ. φράσονRefs 5th c.BC+
II.b openly, frankly, Refs 5th c.BC+; in good faith, Refs 4th c.BC+ to be a simpleton, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.c in its natural state, uncooked, of food, Refs 4th c.AD+
II.2 simply, absolutely, ἁ. ἀδύνατονRefs 5th c.BC+; τῶν νεῶν κατέδυ οὐδεμία ἁ. no ship was absolutely sunk (though some were disabled), Refs 4th c.BC+; ὅσ᾽ ἐστὶν ἀγαθὰ.. ἁ. simply all the good things there are, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἁ. absolutely, opposed to κατά τι (relatively), Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to πρός τι, Refs; opposed to πρὸς ἡμᾶς, Refs; opposed to τινί, Refs; ἁ. βαρύ, κοῦφον, μαλακόν, etc., Refs; τὸ ἁ. καλόν, τὸ ἁ. ἀγαθόν, etc., Refs; opposed to ὁτιοῦν (in some particular), Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν ἁ. δίκην absolute, strict justice, opposed to τοὐπιεικές and χάρις, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἁ. the absolute, Refs 5th c.AD+: comparative ἁπλούστερονRefs 4th c.BC+ -τερως Refs 1st c.BC+: superlative ἁπλούσταταRefs 5th c.BC+
II.3 in a word, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 generally, opposed to σαφέστερον, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὡς ἁ. εἰπεῖνRefs 5th c.BC+: in bad sense, loosely, superficially, λίαν ἁ.Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐχ ἁ. φέρειν not lightly, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5 foolishly, Refs 1st 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.

generously1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

haplōs1×

James 1:5… aitatōr para tou dōarōntou theou pantoi haplōs kai mē oneidizarōntou, kai dōiti auto;… he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and …