Quick Definition
regarding nothing as holy
Strong's Definition
wicked
Derivation: from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G3741 (ὅσιος);
KJV Usage: unholy
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνόσιος, ἀνοσιον (alpha privative and ὅσιος, which see), unholy, impious, wicked: 1Ti_1:9; 2Ti_3:2. (In Greek writings from (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνόσιος anosios 2x
impious, unholy, 1Ti_1:9 ; 2Ti_3:2
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀν -όσιος , -ον
(ἀ - neg ., ὅσιος ),
[in LXX : Eze_22:9 ( H2154 , Wis_12:4 , 2Ma_7:34 ; 2Ma_8:32 , 3Ma_2:2 ; 3Ma_5:7 , 4Ma_12:11 * ;]
unholy, profane ( Cremer , 464): 1Ti_1:9 , 2Ti_3:2 ( MM , VGT , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνόσιος [page 45]
This adjective, which in the NT is confined to 1Ti_1:9 , 2Ti_3:2 , is frequently applied to the Jews in connexion with the great Jewish war in Egypt (A.D. 115 7. See e.g. P Giss I. 41 ii. 4 παρὰ τὴν τῶν ἀνοσίων [Ἰου ]δα̣ι̣ω [ν ἔ ]φοδον , with the editor s introduction. So P Brem 40 .4 (Trajan) (= Chrest. I. 16) μία ἦν ἐλπὶς καὶ λοπὴ προσδοκία ἡ τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ νομοῦ ἡμῶν ἀθρώων κωμ [η ]τῶν [πρὸ ]ς τοὺς ἀνοςίους Ἰο [νδαί ]ους , who had just won a victory. From a later time comes the fragment of a letter in the correspondence of Heroninus (mid. iii/A.D.), P Flor II. 268 .6 , . . .]ενοις ἀνοσείους [. . . , with θεῶν ἐπιτρε [πόντων ] in the next line, but no other context to help.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνόσιος "unholy, profane", Lat. profanus, of persons and things, Hdt. , attic; ἀνόσιος νέκυς a corpse "with all the rites unpaid", Soph. :—adv. -ίως, "in unholy wise", id=Soph. : "without funeral rites", Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀν-όσιος, -ον
(ἀ- neg., ὅσιος), [in LXX: Eze.22:9 (זִמָּה, Wis.12:4, 2Ma.7:34 2Mac 8:32, 3Ma.2:2 3Mac 5:7, 4Ma.12:11 * ;]
unholy, profane (Cremer, 464): 1Ti.1:9, 2Ti.3:2 (MM, VGT, see word).†
(AS)