αὐθαίρετος
voluntary
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (50%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G830 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
2 Corinthians 2 verses
- 2 Corinthians 8:3 αὐθαίρετοι adj nom pl masc For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
- 2 Corinthians 8:17 αὐθαίρετος adj nom sg masc For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
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.
The Greek adjective αυθαιρετος centers on the idea of “voluntary.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to 2 Corinthians (100%). Its earliest occurrence is 2 Corinthians 8:3. It shares a root with αυτος, αυθαδης and αυθεντεω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G830 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 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: Own accord 1×, They were willing of themselves 1×
- American Standard Version: Own accord 1×, They gave of their own accord 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Own accord 1×, Own volition 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Own accord 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G830 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G830 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G830 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G830 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- voluntary, of free choice, of one's own accord
Word origin
Derived from αυτος (autós) (G846) — he.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G830 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| αὐθαίρετοι authaíretoi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 8:3 | 1 |
| αὐθαίρετος authaíretos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 8:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G830, 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
- αυθαδης authádēs G829 self-willed
- αυθεντεω authentéō G831 autocrat
- αυταρκης autárkēs G842 self-sufficient
- αυτοκατακριτος autokatákritos G843 self-condemned
- αυτοματος autómatos G844 of itself
- αυτοπτης autóptēs G845 eyewitness
- αυτου autoû G847 there
- αυτοχειρ autócheir G849 with own hands
- εαυτου heautoû G1438 himself
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
