Quick Definition
ἄτοπος, ον Adj improper, unrighteous, perverse
Strong's Definition
from 1 (as a negative particle) and 5117; out of place, i.e. (figuratively) improper, injurious, wicked
KJV Usage: amiss, harm, unreasonable
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | ἀ- + τόπος
88.111 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Bad, Evil, Harmful, Damaging
not fitting, what should not be done, bad pertaining to not being in accordance with what is right, appropriate, or fitting
58.54 · Nature, Class, Example · Unusual, Different From the Ordinary
unusual, unusual and bad pertaining to that which is unusual, and generally with the implication of harmful or dangerous
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄτοπος, -ov, (τύπος), out of place; not befitting, unbecoming, (so in Grk. writ. fr. Thue. down; very often in Plato); in later Grk. in an ethical sense, improper, wicked: Lk. xxiii. 41 (ἄτοπόν τι πράσσειν, as in Job xxvii. 6; 2 Mace. xiv. 23); Acts xxv. 5 LT Tr WH; (Sept. for ys Job iv. 8; xi. 11, etc. Joseph. antt. 6, 5, 6; Plut. de aud. poét. ὁ. 3 φαυλά and ἄτοπα) ; of men: 2 Th. 111. 2 (ἄτοποι καὶ πονηροί ; Luth. unartig, more correctly unrighteous [(iniquus), A. V. unreasonable, cf. Ellic. ad loc.]). inconvenient, harmful: Acts xxviii. 6 μηδὲν ἄτοπον eis αὐτὸν γινόμενον, no injury, no harm coming to him, (Thue. 2, 49; Joseph. antt. 11, 5, 2; Hdian. 4, 11, 7 [4, ed. Bekk.]).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἄτοπος atopos 4x
pr. out of place; inopportune, unsuitable, absurd; new, unusual, strange; in NT improper, amiss, wicked, Lk. 23:41; Acts 25:5; 2 Thess. 3:2; noxious, harmful, Acts 28:6*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἄ-τοπος, -ον
(< τόπος), [in LXX: Jb 4:8 11:11, Pr 30:20 (24:55), al., for אָוֶן, etc.;]
out of place, not befitting.
marvellous, strange (of symptoms, Hipp.): Ac 28:6; hence, in late Greek, with ethical sense,
improper, unrighteous (so in LXX, and for exx. from π., v. M, II Th., 3:2; MM, s.v.): Lk 23:41, Ac 25:5, II Th 3:2.†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἄτοπος (atopos) — wrong. ἄτοπ-ος, ον, out of place, out of the way: hence,
1. unwonted, extraordinary, of symptoms, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. ἁδονά[Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. strange, paradoxical, δοῦλοι τῶν αἰεὶ ἀτόπων slaves to every new paradox, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄτοπα τῆς σμικρολογίας absurd pettinesses, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄτοπόν ἐστι, with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. b of persons, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. φαγεῖν given to strange food, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
3. unnatural, disgusting, foul, πνεῦμα[Refs 5th c.BC+]; monstrous, ἀτοπώτατον πρᾶγμα ἐξευρών[Refs 5th c.BC+]; later, wicked, wrong, [LXX+NT]; of persons, opposed to χρηστός, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; of things, bad, harmful, [NT]adverb -πως in an unfavourable position, κεῖσθαι, of planets, Vett. Val.63.12.
4. adverb -πως marvellously or absurdly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. καθίζων, ={ἀνυπόπτως}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. non-spatial, τῆς ἰδέας μενούσης ἐν ἀτόπῳ αὐτὸ τόπους γεννῆσαν[Refs 3rd c.AD+]adverb -πως non-spatially, opposed to τοπικῶς, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]