Word Summary
athesmos: lawless
Original Word: ἄθεσμοςTransliteration: athesmos
Phonetic Spelling: (ath'-es-mos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: lawless
Meaning: lawless
Strong's Concordance
lawless, wicked.
From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of tithemi (in the sense of enacting); lawless, i.e. (by implication) criminal -- wicked.
see GREEK a
see GREEK tithemi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 113: ἄθεσμοςἄθεσμος, (
θεσμός),
lawless (
A. V. wicked);
of one who breaks through the restraints of law and gratifies his lusts:
2 Peter 2:7;
2 Peter 3:17. (the
Sept.,
Diodorus,
Philo,
Josephus,
Plutarch.)