UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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νόθος

MainId: 003444000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: True

AlphaPos: ν

StrongCodes: G3541

BaseForms:

1. BaseFormID: 003444001000000

   PartsOfSpeech: adjc.

   Inflections:

   1. Lemma: νόθος

      BaseFormIndex: 1

      Realizations: -η, -ον

   LEXMeanings:

   1. LEXID: 003444001001000

      LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y

      LEXEntryCode: 10.39

      LEXIndent: 0

      LEXDomains: Kinship Terms

      LEXSubDomains: Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations

      LEXSenses:

      1. LanguageCode: en

         LastEdited: 2021-12-10 21:04:08

         DefinitionShort: pertaining to someone who is born out of wedlock and is thus without legal status or rights

         Glosses: ['illegitimate', 'bastard']

         Comments: There may, however, be some serious problems involved in translating νόθοι in {S:05801200800022}, especially if νόθοι must be rendered in some languages as ‘sons whose parents are not married,’ for νόθοι occurs here in a highly figurative passage speaking of God as one’s parent. It may, therefore, be necessary to employ an expression such as ‘this means you are not his real sons’ or ‘… not sons who truly belong to him.’

      LEXReferences: HEB 12:8