King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G844
Transliteration: automatos
Phonetic Spelling: (ow-tom'-at-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: acting of one's own will, of its own accord
Meaning: acting of one's own will, of its own accord
αὐτόματος, ἀυτοματον, and αὐτομάτη, ἀυτοματον (from αὐτός and μέμαα to desire eagerly, from the obsolete theme μάω), moved by one's own impulse, or acting without the instigation or intervention of another (from Homer down); often of the earth producing plants of itself, and of the plants themselves and fruits growing without culture; (on its adverbial use cf. Winer's Grammar, § 54, 2): Mark 4:28; (Herodotus 2, 94; 8, 138; Plato, polit., p. 272 a.; (Theophrastus, h., p. 2, 1); Diodorus 1, 8, etc. Leviticus 25:5, 11). of gates opening of their own accord: Acts 12:10 (so in Homer, Iliad 5, 749; Xenophon, Hell. 6, 4, 7; Apoll. Rh. 4, 41; Plutarch, Timol. 12; Nonnus, Dionysius 44, 21; (Dio Cassio, 44, 17)).
Word Summary
automatos: acting of one's own will, of its own accord
Original Word: αὐτόματοςTransliteration: automatos
Phonetic Spelling: (ow-tom'-at-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: acting of one's own will, of its own accord
Meaning: acting of one's own will, of its own accord
Strong's Concordance
of own accord, of self. From autos and the same as maten; self-moved ("automatic"), i.e. Spontaneous -- of own accord, of self.
see GREEK autos
see GREEK maten
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 844: αὐτόματοςαὐτόματος, ἀυτοματον, and αὐτομάτη, ἀυτοματον (from αὐτός and μέμαα to desire eagerly, from the obsolete theme μάω), moved by one's own impulse, or acting without the instigation or intervention of another (from Homer down); often of the earth producing plants of itself, and of the plants themselves and fruits growing without culture; (on its adverbial use cf. Winer's Grammar, § 54, 2): Mark 4:28; (Herodotus 2, 94; 8, 138; Plato, polit., p. 272 a.; (Theophrastus, h., p. 2, 1); Diodorus 1, 8, etc. Leviticus 25:5, 11). of gates opening of their own accord: Acts 12:10 (so in Homer, Iliad 5, 749; Xenophon, Hell. 6, 4, 7; Apoll. Rh. 4, 41; Plutarch, Timol. 12; Nonnus, Dionysius 44, 21; (Dio Cassio, 44, 17)).