Word Summary
akatapaustos: incessant
Original Word: ἀκατάπαυστοςTransliteration: akatapaustos
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-at-ap'-ow-stos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: incessant
Meaning: incessant
Strong's Concordance
unceasing, restless
From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of katapauo; unrefraining -- that cannot cease.
see GREEK a
see GREEK katapauo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 180: ἀκατάπαστοςἀκατάπαστος, — found only in
2 Peter 2:14 in manuscripts A and B, from which
L WH Tr marginal reading have adopted it instead of the
Rec. ἀκαταπαύστους, which see It may be derived from
πατέομαι, perfect
πεπάσμαι,
to taste, eat; whence
ἀκατάπαστος insatiable. In secular writings
κατάπαστος (which Alexander
Buttmann (1873) conjectures may have been the original reading) signifies
besprinkled, soiled, from
καταπάσσω to besprinkle. For a fuller discussion of this various reading see
Buttmann, 65 (57) (and
WH's Appendix, p. 170).
STRONGS NT 180: ἀκατάπαυστοςἀκατάπαυστος, (καταπαύω), unable to stop, unceasing; passively, not quieted, that cannot be quieted; with the genitive of thing (on which cf Winer's Grammar, § 30, 4), 2 Peter 2:14 (R G T Tr txt) (eyes not quieted with sin, namely, which they commit with adulterous look). (Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch)