ἀνομία
lawlessness
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G458 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Romans. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans
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, ανομια (anomía) means “lawlessness.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “iniquity” in the King James Version, “lawlessness” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 12 verses across 7 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Matthew (33%), then Romans and 2 Thessalonians. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G458 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 4 verses 33%
- Romans 2 verses 17%
- 2 Thessalonians 2 verses 17%
By section of the New Testament
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 12 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 50%
- Gospels 4 verses · 33%
- Johannine 1 verse · 8%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 8%
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: Iniquity 9×, Iniquities 3×
- American Standard Version: Iniquity 9×, Iniquities 3×, Lawlessness 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lawlessness 7×, Wickedness 5×, Lawless acts 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lawlessness 11×, Lawless deeds 2×, More and more lawlessness 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G458 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G458 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G458 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G458 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- the condition of without law
- contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness
Word origin
Derived from ανομος (ánomos) (G459) — lawless.
From G459 ; illegality that is violation of law or (generally) wickedness : - iniquity X transgress (-ion of) the law unrighteousness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G458 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀνομίαν anomían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 7:23 | 5 |
| ἀνομίας anomías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 23:28 | 4 |
| ἀνομίᾳ anomía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 6:19 | 2 |
| ἀνομία anomía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 1 John 3:4 | 1 |
| ἀνομίαι anomíai | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Romans 4:7 | 1 |
| ἀνομιῶν anomiō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Hebrews 10:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G458, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ανομια appears 199 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 188 verses in 19 books.
- 199
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 188
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:15 ἀνομία
- Exodus 34:7 ἀνομία
- Leviticus 16:21 ἀνομία
- Numbers 14:18 ἀνομία
- Deuteronomy 31:29 ἀνομία
- 2 Samuel 14:9 ἀνομία
- 2 Kings 7:9 ἀνομία
- 1 Chronicles 9:1 ἀνομία
- Ezra 9:6 ἀνομία
- Job 7:21 ἀνομία
- Psalms 5:5 ἀνομία
- Proverbs 13:11 ἀνομία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G458) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 188. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:15 ἀνομία When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Exodus 34:7 ἀνομία keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
- Exodus 34:9 ἀνομία He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."
- Leviticus 16:21 ἀνομία Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
- Leviticus 19:29 ἀνομία Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
- Leviticus 20:14 ἀνομία "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
- Leviticus 22:16 ἀνομία and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
- Leviticus 26:43 ἀνομία The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
- Numbers 14:18 ἀνομία Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 ἀνομία For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
- 2 Samuel 14:9 ἀνομία The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
- 2 Samuel 19:20 ἀνομία For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
- 2 Samuel 22:5 ἀνομία For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
- 2 Samuel 22:24 ἀνομία I was also perfect toward him; I kept myself from my iniquity.
- 2 Samuel 24:10 ἀνομία David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
- 2 Kings 7:9 ἀνομία Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we hold our peace: if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.
- 1 Chronicles 9:1 ἀνομία So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
- 1 Chronicles 10:13 ἀνομία So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire [thereby],
- Ezra 9:6 ἀνομία and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens.
- Ezra 9:7 ἀνομία Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
- Ezra 9:13 ἀνομία After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
- Ezra 13:37 ἀνομία
- Ezra 19:2 ἀνομία
- Job 7:21 ἀνομία Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
- Job 8:4 ἀνομία If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;
- Job 10:6 ἀνομία That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin?
- Job 10:14 ἀνομία If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
- Job 13:23 ἀνομία How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
- Job 14:17 ἀνομία My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
- Job 20:27 ἀνομία The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, The earth shall rise up against him.
- Job 31:3 ἀνομία Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
- Job 31:28 ἀνομία This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God who is above.
- Job 34:37 ἀνομία For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God."
- Psalms 5:5 ἀνομία The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 5:6 ἀνομία You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
- Psalms 6:9 ἀνομία Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
- Psalms 7:15 ἀνομία He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.
- Psalms 13:4 ἀνομία Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
- Psalms 17:5 ἀνομία My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
- Psalms 17:24 ἀνομία
- Psalms 25:10 ἀνομία All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth To such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Psalms 30:19 ἀνομία
- Psalms 31:1 ἀνομία In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed: Deliver me in your righteousness.
- Psalms 31:5 ἀνομία Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
- Psalms 35:3 ἀνομία Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."
- Psalms 35:4 ἀνομία Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
- Psalms 35:5 ἀνομία Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
- Psalms 35:13 ἀνομία But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
- Psalms 36:1 ἀνομία An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."
- Psalms 37:5 ἀνομία Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G458) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
