ἄνομος
lawless
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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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 distinct verses where G459 appears in the Genitive case, across 2 books. 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.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
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.
“lawless” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective ανομος (ánomos). First canonically at Luke 22:37, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. It shares a root with Α, αβαρης and αβυσσος. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G459 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 17%
- Acts 1 verse 17%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 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 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 33%
- Gospels 1 verse · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 17%
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: Are without law 2×, Transgressors 2×, Wicked 2×
- American Standard Version: Lawless 4×, Are without law 2×, Without law 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lawless 4×, Without law 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lawless 4×, Without law 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G459 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G459 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G459 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G459 across 10 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.
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.
- destitute of (the Mosaic) law
- departing from the law, a violator of the law, lawless, wicked
Word origin
Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G459 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀνόμοις anómois | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 9:21 | 3 |
| ἄνομος ánomos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 9:21 | 3 |
| ἀνόμων anómōn | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Luke 22:37 | 2 |
| ἀνόμους anómous | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 9:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G459, 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
- αβαρης abarḗs G4 light
- αβυσσος ábyssos G12 abyss
- αγαμος ágamos G22 unmarried
- αγενεαλογητος agenealógētos G35 without genealogy
- αγενης agenḗs G36 ignoble
- αγναφος ágnaphos G46 unprocessed
- αγνοεω agnoéō G50 to be ignorant
- αγνωσια agnōsía G56 ignorance
- αγνωστος ágnōstos G57 unknown
- αγραμματος agrámmatos G62 unlearned
- αγρυπνεω agrypnéō G69 to watch
- αδαπανος adápanos G77 free
- αδελφος adelphós G80 brother
- αδηλος ádēlos G82 obscure
- αδης háidēs G86 hell
- αδιακριτος adiákritos G87 clear
- αδιαλειπτος adiáleiptos G88 continual
- αδικος ádikos G94 unjust
- αδοκιμος adókimos G96 unapproved
- αδολος ádolos G97 guileless
- αδυνατος adýnatos G102 weak
- αζυμος ázymos G106 unleavened
- αθανασια athanasía G110 immortal
- αθεμιτος athémitos G111 unlawful
+149 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 178 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ανομος appears 74 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 70 verses in 13 books.
- 74
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 70
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 24:14 ἄνομος
- 1 Kings 8:32 ἄνομος
- 2 Chronicles 6:23 ἄνομος
- Job 5:22 ἄνομος
- Psalms 36:28 ἄνομος
- Proverbs 1:19 ἄνομος
- Isaiah 1:4 ἄνομος
- Jeremiah 6:13 ἄνομος
- Ezekiel 3:18 ἄνομος
- Daniel 3:32 ἄνομος
- Micah 6:10 ἄνομος
- Habakkuk 3:13 ἄνομος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G459) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 70. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 24:14 ἄνομος After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
- 1 Kings 8:32 ἄνομος then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
- 2 Chronicles 6:23 ἄνομος then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
- 2 Chronicles 24:7 ἄνομος For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of Yahweh did they bestow on the Baals.
- Job 5:22 ἄνομος At destruction and famine you shall laugh, Neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
- Job 11:11 ἄνομος For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.
- Job 11:14 ἄνομος If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
- Job 12:5 ἄνομος In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune, It is ready for them whose foot slips.
- Job 19:29 ἄνομος Be afraid of the sword, For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment."
- Job 27:4 ἄνομος Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 34:8 ἄνομος Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men?
- Job 34:17 ἄνομος Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--
- Job 34:22 ἄνομος There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Job 35:14 ἄνομος How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
- Psalms 36:28 ἄνομος
- Psalms 50:15 ἄνομος Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
- Psalms 72:3 ἄνομος The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
- Psalms 103:35 ἄνομος
- Proverbs 1:19 ἄνομος So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
- Proverbs 10:2 ἄνομος Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivers from death.
- Proverbs 12:3 ἄνομος A man shall not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
- Proverbs 14:16 ἄνομος A wise man fears, and shuns evil, But the fool is hotheaded and reckless.
- Proverbs 21:18 ἄνομος The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; The treacherous for the upright.
- Proverbs 27:21 ἄνομος The crucible is for silver, And the furnace for gold; But man is refined by his praise.
- Proverbs 28:10 ἄνομος Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, He will fall into his own trap; But the blameless will inherit good.
- Proverbs 29:27 ἄνομος A dishonest man detests the righteous, And the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
- Isaiah 1:4 ἄνομος Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
- Isaiah 1:25 ἄνομος And I will turn my hand on you, Thoroughly purge away your dross, And will take away all your tin.
- Isaiah 1:28 ἄνομος But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, And those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
- Isaiah 1:31 ἄνομος The strong will be like tinder, And his work like a spark. They will both burn together, And no one will quench them."
- Isaiah 3:11 ἄνομος Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
- Isaiah 9:14 ἄνομος Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
- Isaiah 9:16 ἄνομος For those who lead this people cause them to err; and those who are led of them are destroyed.
- Isaiah 10:6 ἄνομος I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Isaiah 13:11 ἄνομος I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
- Isaiah 29:20 ἄνομος For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off;
- Isaiah 31:6 ἄνομος Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
- Isaiah 32:6 ἄνομος For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
- Isaiah 32:7 ἄνομος The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
- Isaiah 33:14 ἄνομος The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?
- Isaiah 48:8 ἄνομος Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
- Isaiah 53:12 ἄνομος Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Isaiah 55:7 ἄνομος let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Isaiah 57:3 ἄνομος But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
- Isaiah 57:4 ἄνομος Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
- Isaiah 66:3 ἄνομος He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
- Jeremiah 6:13 ἄνομος For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
- Ezekiel 3:18 ἄνομος When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
- Ezekiel 3:19 ἄνομος Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
- Ezekiel 5:6 ἄνομος She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G459) 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.
