UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: It is difficult to determine whether αὐτόματος focuses primarily upon an event taking place because of the action of an object itself or whether the implication is that there is no evident cause.

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: αὐτόματος; -η, -ον

Related lemmas: αὐτός

Sense 1: without any cause, without something to cause it, by itself

Semantic entry: 89.21

Semantic domains: Relations

Subdomains: Cause and/or Reason

Definition: pertaining to being self-caused (or possibly, without evident cause){N:001}

Notes: In some languages one can only express ‘opened … by itself’ in RV ACT 12:10 · LV ACT 12:10 · Read together ACT 12:10 by ‘opened … nobody made it open.’

MRK 4:28: RV MRK 4:28 · LV MRK 4:28 · Read together MRK 4:28

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OET-RV MRK 4:28

28 The earth is designed to multiply the seed: first a sprout appears, then a bigger plant, and then the full head of grain.

OET-LV MRK 4:28

28 The earth is _bearing _fruit automatic:
first a_blade, thereafter a_head _of _grain, thereafter full grain in the head _of _grain.

ACT 12:10: RV ACT 12:10 · LV ACT 12:10 · Read together ACT 12:10

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OET-RV ACT 12:10

10 They went past the first guard and then the second, and then came to the iron gate which led out of the prison into the city. The gate opened by itself and they went out onto the street, then at the end of the street the messenger suddenly left him.

OET-LV ACT 12:10

10 And having _passed _through the_first guard and the_second, they _came to the the iron gate, which leading into the city, which automatic was _opened _up to _them, and having _come _out they _went _ahead on_ one _street, and immediately the messenger withdrew from him.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

αὐτόματος

Form 1

Sense 1: without any cause, without something to cause it, by itself