Strong's Concordance alusitelés: unprofitable Original Word: ἀλυσιτελής, έςPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: alusitelés Phonetic Spelling: (al-oo-sit-el-ace') Definition: unprofitable Usage: profitless, unprofitable, ruinous, detrimental. HELPS Word-studies 255 alysitelḗs (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 3089 /lýō, "to loose") – properly, not able to hold together (cohere), i.e. "not profitable because lacking cohesion"; (figuratively) missing benefit because not complete (especially missing something essential). 255 /alysitelḗs ("unprofitable"), used only in Heb 13:17, describes the lost benefits from making a poor choice. [255 (alysitelḗs) is used in classical Greek (as in Hippocrates) as a technical medical term for "unfavorable" symptoms.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and lusiteleó (to pay dues, be useful) Definition unprofitable NASB Translation unprofitable (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 255: ἀλυσιτελήςἀλυσιτελής, (ές (λυσιτελής, see λυσιτελέω), unprofitable, (Xenophon, vectig. 4, 6); by litotes, hurtful, pernicious: Hebrews 13:17. (From (Hippocrates) Xenophon down.) STRONGS NT 255a: ἄλφαἄλφα, τό, indeclinable: Revelation 1:8; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:13. See A. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance unprofitable. From a (as a negative particle) and the base of lusitelei; gainless, i.e. (by implication) pernicious -- unprofitable. see GREEK a see GREEK lusitelei Forms and Transliterations αλυσιτελες αλυσιτελές ἀλυσιτελὲς αλφϊτα άλφιτον αλφίτου αλφίτων άλφος αλώθ alusiteles alysiteles alysitelèsLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |
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