Word Summary
akatastasia: instability
Original Word: ἀκαταστασίαTransliteration: akatastasia
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-at-as-tah-see'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: instability
Meaning: instability
Strong's Concordance
commotion, confusion, tumult.
From akatastatos; instability, i.e. Disorder -- commotion, confusion, tumult.
see GREEK akatastatos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 181: ἀκαταστασίαἀκαταστασία,
(ας,
ἡ (
ἀκατάστατος),
instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion:
1 Corinthians 14:33;
James 3:16; (
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 14, 1 [ET]; (
Proverbs 26:28; Tobit 4:13)); plural
disturbances, disorders: of dissensions,
2 Corinthians 12:20; of seditions,
2 Corinthians 6:5 (Cf. Meyer at the passage); of the tumults or commotions of war,
Luke 21:9 (
Polybius,
Dionysius Halicarnassus).