Quick Definition
ἀφελότης, τητος, ἡ n.f. simplicity, sincerity
Strong's Definition
from a compound of 1 (as a negative particle) and phellos (in the sense of a stone as stubbing the foot); smoothness, i.e. (figuratively) simplicity
KJV Usage: singleness
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ητος | φελής (a stone)
88.55 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Humility
humility, humbleness, simplicity humility associated with simplicity of life
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀφελότης, -ητος, ἡ, (fr. ἀφελής without rock, smooth, plain, and this fr. φελλεύς rocky land), simplicity, [A.V. singleness]: καρδίας, Acts ii. 46, (found only here [and in eccl. writ.]. The Greeks used apéAea).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀφελότης aphelotēs 1x
sincerity, simplicity, Acts 2:46
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ἀφελότης, -ητος, ἡ
= cl. ἀφέλεια (v. MM, s.v.),
simplicity: Ac 2:46.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀφελότης. Vettius Valens dispels Grimm-Thayer’s aspersions once more: see p. 2405, the cultured man ῥᾳδίως ἁλίσκεται ὡς ἄπειρος τῶν παθῶν ὑπ᾽ ἀφελότητος καὶ ἀδιοικησίας προδεδομένος, ‘‘betrayed by simplicity and lack of practical capacity.” So p. 153°, if Kroll’s conjecture is sound, οὐ ἄφεσις 96 φθόνῳ φερόμενοι οὐδὲ ἀφελότητι. So here is one writer neither ‘*biblical” nor ‘‘ ecclesiastical” who agrees with Luke in preferring this abstract to ἀφέλεια, which however he uses once, p. 425 eis ἀ. τὸν τρόπον ἐμφαίνοντες. The astrologer may further be quoted for the adverb ἀφελῶς, Ρ. 168% πολλὰ δὲ ἀ. πιστεύσας ἀπώλεσεν, again confirming the colour of unworldly simplicity which appears in Ac 245, The same adverb may be quoted from an inscr., JosPE i, 22°49, ἑαυτὸν a. τῇ πατρίδι εἰς ἅπαντα ἐπεδίδου, as well as in Hellenistic literature. Thus Preuschen (HZNT7 ad Ac 24) cites Athenaeus, Dezpuos. X. 4194 (II. 41216 Kaibel) ἑστιαθεὶς ἀφελῶς καὶ μουσικῶς, where ‘simple ” meals are contrasted with τὰ πολυτελῆ δεῖπνα. Add Ka/be/ 727'* (Christian?) εἰκοστὸν δὲ βιώσασαν ἀφελῶς ἐνιαυτόν : the same epitaph speaks of a ψυχὴν ἀφελῆ.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀφελότης (aphelotēs) — sincerity. ἀφελότης, ητος, ἡ, simplicity, unworldliness, [NT]