Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #146312

SR GNT Heb 13:17 ἀλυσιτελές (alusiteles) ‘and not groaning unprofitable for for you_all this would_be’ Strongs=2550 Lemma=alusitelēs^*
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form ἀλυσιτελές (S-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀλυσιτελές’ (S-NNS) is always and only glossed as ‘unprofitable’.

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘alusitelēs’ in the Greek originals.

Greek words (2) other than ἀλυσιτελές (S-NNS) with a gloss related to ‘unprofitable’

TIT 3:9 ἀνωφελεῖς (anōfeleis) S-NFP Lemma=anōfelēs ‘be avoiding they are for unprofitable and useless’ SR GNT Tit 3:9 word 15

OET-LV: 9 But be _avoiding foolish debates, and genealogies, and strifes, and legal quarrels, they _are for unprofitable and useless. (TIT_3:9)

OET-RV: 9 But avoid foolish debates, arguments about ancestry, other strife, and quarrels about God’s commands because they all achieve nothing and waste time. (TIT 3:9)

HEB 7:18 ἀνωφελές (anōfeles) S-ANS Lemma=anōfelēs ‘of it weak and unprofitable’ SR GNT Heb 7:18 word 12

OET-LV: 18 An_annulment for on _one _hand is _becoming of _going _before the_command, because _of the of _it weak and unprofitable, (HEB_7:18)

OET-RV: 18 In the first case, the command is annulled because it’s weak and unprofitable (HEB 7:18)

Key: S=substantive adjective ANS=accusative,neuter,singular NFP=nominative,feminine,plural NNS=nominative,neuter,singular