Word Summary
ater: without
Original Word: ἄτερTransliteration: ater
Phonetic Spelling: (at'-er)
Part of Speech: Preposition
Short Definition: without
Meaning: without
Strong's Concordance
in the absence of, without.
A particle probably akin to aneu; aloof, i.e. Apart from (literally or figuratively) -- in the absence of, without.
see GREEK aneu
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 817: ἄτερἄτερ, preposition, frequent in the poets (from
Homer down), rare in prose writings from
Plato (?) down;
without, apart from: with the genitive (
Dionysius Halicarnassus 3, 10;
Plutarch,
Numbers 14, Cat. min. 5); in the Bible only in 2 Macc. 12:15;
Luke 22:6 (
ἄτερ ὄχλου in the absence of the multitude; hence, without tumult),
Luke 22:35. ('
Teaching 3, 10 [ET];
Herm. sim. 5, 4, 5 [ET].)