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G677 ἀπρόσκοπος (apróskopos)
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ἀπρόσκοπος, ον Adj not offending, not causing offence, blameless

Strong's Definition

from 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of 4350; actively, inoffensive, i.e. not leading into sin; passively, faultless, i.e. not led into sin

KJV Usage: none (void of, without) offence

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

adjc. | -ον | ἀ- + κόπτω

88.318 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Sin, Wrongdoing, Guilt

blameless, without blame pertaining to being blameless in view of not having given offense In a number of languages the concept of ‘being blameless’ as in 88.317 and 88.318 can only be expressed by a verbal expression involving some measure of complaint. For example, the expression in ACT 24:16 may be rendered as ‘I do my best to live in such a way that neither God nor people can blame me’ or ‘... can complain against me.’

ACT 24:16 · 1CO 10:32 · PHP 1:10

25.184 · Attitudes and Emotions · Offend, Be Offended

without causing offense, without causing trouble pertaining to not causing offense

1CO 10:32

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀπρόσκοπος, -ov, (προσκόπτω, q- V- ) ; 1. actively, having nothing for one to strike against; not causing to stumble; a. prop.: ὁδός, a smooth road, Sir. xxxv. (xxxii.) 21. b. metaph. not leading others into sin by one’s mode of life: 1 Co. x. 32. 2. passively, a. not striking against or stumbling; metaph. not led into sin; blameless: Phil. i. 10 (joined with εἰλικρινεῖς). Ὁ. without offence: συνείδησις, not troubled and distressed by a consciousness of sin, Acts xxiv. 16. (Not found in prof. auth. [exe. Sext. Emp. 1, 195 (p. 644, 13 Bekk.)].)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀπρόσκοπος aproskopos 3x

not stumbling or jarring; met. not stumbling or jarring against moral rule, unblamable, clear, Acts 24:16; Phil. 1:10; free from offensiveness, 1 Cor. 10:32*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

**† ἀπρόσκοπος, -ον

(< προσκόπτω), [in LXX: Si 35 (32):21, III Mac 3:8*;]

act., not causing to stumble: metaph., of not leading others into sin, I Co 10:32.

Pass., not stumbling, without offence, blameless: Ac 24:16, Phl 1:10 (for exx., v. MM, s.v.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀπρόσκοπος. In the letter of a slave to her master, P Giss I. 178 ἢ: (Hadrian) ἠγωνίασα, κύριε, οὐ μετρίως, ἵνα ἀκούσω ὅτι ἐνώθρευσας, ἀλλὰ χάρις τοῖς θεοῖς πᾶσι ὅτι σε διαφυλάσσουσι ἀπρόσκοπον, the context implies that @. must be understood in the sense of ‘‘free from hurt or harm.” So in the same family correspondence, 2. 22° ἀ[ναλ]αμβανούσης σε ἀπρόσίκοπΊἼ]ον kal ἱλαρώτατον. In the same again, 7d. 791.8 ἵνα μετὰ φιλίας καὶ ἀπροσκόπως ἐξέλθωμεν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν ém ἀγαθῶι “in Freundschaft und ohne Arger und Anstoss” (Ed.). Under the form ἀπρόσκοπτος, it is found in the late (apparently heathen) inscription from Messana, 7GSZ 404 ᾿Ανδρόβιος Λύκιος ναύκληρος ἔζησε ἀπρόσκοπτος ἔτη ἃς: (see Nageli, p. 43) in the metaphorical sense of Phil 17° ‘‘ blameless.” It is clear that we need not be longer concerned with Grimm’s note, already discounted by Thayer, that the adj. is ‘‘not found in profane authors.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀπρόσκοπος (aproskopos) — not giving offence. ἀπρό-σκοπος, ον,

__B unseeing, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.II unexplored, ὁδός[LXX]

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