ἀκόλαστος
unruly, licentious
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀκόλαστος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Proverbs 19:29 ἀκόλαστος Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.
- Proverbs 20:1 ἀκόλαστος Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: but every fool is entangled with them.
- Proverbs 21:11 ἀκόλαστος When an intemperate man is punished the simple becomes wiser: and a wise man understanding will receive knowledge.
About this word
About this word
ἀκόλαστος (akólastos), “unruly, licentious,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 3 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
