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ἀκατάγνωστος

blameless

G176 Strong's Greek
akatágnōstos Transliteration
/ak-at-ag'-noce-tos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

At its core, ακαταγνωστος (akatágnōstos) means “blameless.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. The word gravitates to Titus (100%). Its lone occurrence is Titus 2:8. It clusters with Α, αβαρης and αβυσσος under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
that cannot be condemned
Modern gloss
blameless
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G176 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Titus 2:8
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Titus 2:8.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 100%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Cannot be condemned 1×
  • American Standard Version: Cannot be condemned 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Above reproach 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is above criticism 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G176 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Cannot be condemned” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G176 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Cannot be condemned” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G176 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Above reproach” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G176 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Is above criticism” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. that cannot be condemned, not to be censored

Word origin

Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 12:54,1

From G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G2607 ; unblamable : - that cannot be condemned.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G176, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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