Quick Definition
ἀδάπανος, ον Adj without expense, free
Strong's Definition
from 1 (as negative particle); and 1160; costless, i.e. gratuitous
KJV Usage: without expense
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | ἀ- + δαπανάω
57.164 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Pay, Price, Cost
free of charge, without cost pertaining to there being no charge or expenditure
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀδάπανος, -ov, (δαπάνη), without expense, requiring no outlay: 1 Co. ix. 18 (wa ἀδάπανον θήσω τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ‘that I may make Christian instruction gratuitous’).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀδάπανος adapanos 1x
without expense, gratuitous, 1 Cor. 9:18*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀδάπανος, -ον
(< δαπάνη),
without expense, free of charge: I Co 9:18.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀδάπανος. This NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (1 Cor 915) is found in ἤλίελεῖ 10067 (Teos, ii/B.c.) ἀδάπανον τὴν συμμορίαν καθιστάνειν : cf. Priene 111)%8 (end of i/B.C.). adele: P Oxy IV. 744! (B.c. 1) (= Selections, p. 32). “T\aptova (/.-wv)” Adute τῆι ἀδελφῆι πλεῖστα χαίρειν, ““ Hilarion to Alis, his sister, heartiest greetings,” Alis being doubtless wife as well as sister, by a not uncommon Egyptian practice. It figured in Egyptian religion: cf. P Oxy VI. 8867 - (iti/a.b.) ἡ lows ζητοῦσα ἑαυτῆς Tov ἀδελφὸν κὲ ἄνδρα "Οσιρειν. Cf. for this an Egyptian inser. of the reign of Augustus, Archiv vy. p. 164’ Α[ρ]τεμίδωρος ᾿Ανουβᾶτος καὶ ἡ γυνὴ ἀδελφὴ “Hpaκλία. . . καὶ 6 υἱὸς “EppavotB(t)s, and still more clearly P Tebt II. 320° (a.b. 181) ta[s]... γυναικὸς... [οὔσης polv ὁμοπίατρίου) Kal ὁμ[ομ(ητρίου) ἀδ]ελ(φῆς). But there seem to be places where the word means simply ‘‘ wife” : see under ἀδελφός, and cf. P Oxy VII. 1070 (iii/a.D.), where a man addresses his wife as ἀδελφή and speaks of ** our child and your brother and your father and your mother and all our (relations)’—clearly she was not ‘‘sister” literally. Dittenberger on OG/S 60% (B.C. 247-21) Βερενίκη, ἡ ἀδελφὴ kal γυνὴ αὐτοῦ (Ptolemy Euergetes), shows that ἀδελφή was an honorary title: Berenice was her husband’s cousin. For the later metaphorical use of the word (1 Cor 7", etc.), cf. the Paris magical papyrus 1. 1135 ff. χαίρετε ols τὸ χαίρειν ἐν εὐλογίᾳ δίδοται ἀδελφοῖς Kal ἀδελφαῖς ὁσίοις καὶ ὁσίαις.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀδάπανος (adapanos) — free. ἀδάπᾰνος, ον, without expense, costing nothing, γλυκέα κἀδάπανα[Refs 5th c.BC+]adverb ἀδαπάνως, τέρψαι φρένα[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. of persons, not spending, ἀ. χρημάτων εἰς τὸ δέον[Refs 4th c.BC+]