tat. § 2, § 18 (bis), § 20 (bis); de mundo § 2. From Josephus: antt. 7, 14, 5; 12, 7, 3; 15, 10, 5; b. j. 1, 33, 2; 6, 2, 1; κλέος αἰ.: antt. 4, 6, 5; b. j. 3, 8, 5; μνήμη αἰ.: antt. 1, 13, 4; 6, 14, 4; 10, 11, 7; 15, 11, 1; οἶκον μὲν αἰώνιον ἔχεις (of God), antt. 8, 4, 2; ἐφυλάχθη ὁ Ἰωάννης δεσμοῖς αἰωνίοις, b. j. 6, 9, 4.
Syn. ἀΐδιος, αἰώνιος: ἀΐδ. covers the complete philosophic idea—without beginning and without end; also either without beginning or without end; as respects the past, it is applied to what has existed time out of mind. αἰώνιος (fr. Plato on) gives prominence to the immeasurableness of eternity (while such words as συνεχής continuous, unintermitted, διατελής perpetual, lasting to the end, are not so applicable to an abstract term, like αἰών); αἰώνιος accordingly is esp. adapted to supersensuous things, see the N. T. Cf. Tim. Locr. 96 c. θεὸν δὲ τὸν μὲν αἰώνιον νόος ὁρῆ μόνος etc.; Plat. Tim. 37 d. (and Stallbaum ad loc.); 38 b. c.; legg. x. p. 904 a. ἀνώλεθρον δὲ ὂν γενόμενον, ἀλλ’ οὐκ αἰώνιον. Cf. also Plato’s διαιώνιος (Tim. 38 b.; 39 e.). Schmidt ch. 45.]
ἀκαθαρσία, -ας, ἡ, (ἀκάθαρτος), [fr. Hippocr. down], uncleanness; a. physical: Mt. xxiii. 27. b. in a moral sense, the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living: Ro. i. 24; vi. 19; 2 Co. xii. 21; Gal. v. 19; Eph. iv. 19; v. 3; Col. iii. 5; 1 Th. iv. 7; used of impure motives in 1 Th. ii. 3. (Dem. p. 553, 12.) Cf. Tittmann i. p. 150 sq.*
ἀκαθάρτης, -ητος, ἡ, impurity: Rev. xvii. 4,—not found elsewhere, and the true reading here is τὰ ἀκάθαρτα τῆς.*
ἀκάθαρτος, -ον, (καθαίρω), [fr. Soph. down], in the Sept. i. q. טָמֵא, not cleansed, unclean; a. in a ceremonial sense, that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law, lest impurity be contracted: Acts x. 14; xi. 8 (of food); Acts x. 28; 1 Co. vii. 14 (of men); 2 Co. vi. 17 (fr. Is. lii. 11, of things pertaining to idolatry); Rev. xviii. 2 (of birds). b. in a moral sense, unclean in thought and life (freq. in Plat.): Eph. v. 5; τὰ ἀκάθαρτα τῆς πορνείας, Rev. xvii. 4 (acc. to the true reading); πνεύματα, demons, bad angels, [in twenty-three pass. of the Gospels, Acts, Rev.]: Mt. x. 1; xii. 43; Mk. i. 23, 26; iii. 11, etc.; Lk. iv. 33, 36; vi. 18, etc.; Acts v. 16; viii. 7; Rev. xvi. 13; xviii. 2, (πνεύματα πονηρά in Mt. xii. 45; Lk. vii. 21; viii. 2; xi. 26; Acts xix. 12 sq. 15 sq.).
ἀκαιρέομαι, -οῦμαι: [impf. ἠκαιρούμην: (ἄκαιρος inopportune); to lack opportunity, (opp. to εὐκαιρέω): Phil. iv. 10. (Phot., Suid., Zonar.; ἀκαιρεῖν, Diod. excerp. Vat. ed. Mai p. 30 [frag. l. x. § 7, ed. Dind.].)*
ἀκαίρως, (καιρός), adv., unseasonably, [A. V. out of season], (opp. to εὐκαίρως): 2 Tim. iv. 2 (whether seasonable for men or not). (Sir. xxxv. 4; Aeschyl. Ag. 808]; Plat. de rep. x. p. 606 b.; Tim. 33 a.; 86 c.; Xen. Eph. 5, 7; Joseph. antt. 6, 7, 2, al.)*
ἄ-κακος, -ον, (κακός); a. without guile or fraud, harmless; free from guilt: Heb. vii. 26; [cf. Clement. frag. 8 ed. Jacobson, (Bp. Lghtft. S. Clement of Rome etc. p. 219): ἄκακος ὁ Πατὴρ πνεῦμα ἔδωκεν ἄκακον. b. fearing no evil from others, distrusting no one, [cf. Eng. guileless]: Ro. xvi. 18. ([Aeschyl.,] Plat., Dem., Polyb., al.; Sept.) [Cf. Trench § lvi.; Tittmann i. p. 27 sq.]*
ἄκανθα, -ης, ἡ, (ἀκή) a point [but see in ἀκμή]); a. a thorn, bramble-bush, brier: Mt. vii. 16; Lk. vi. 44; Heb. vi. 8; εἰς τὰς ἀκάνθας i. e. among the seeds of thorns, Mt. xiii. 22; Mk. iv. 7 [L mrg. ἐπί], 18 (Tdf. ἐπί]; Lk. viii. 14 (vs. 7 ἐν μέσῳ τῶν ἀκανθῶν); ἐπὶ τὰς ἀκ. i. e. upon ground in which seeds of thorns were lying hidden, Mt. xiii. 7. b. a thorny plant: στέφανον ἐξ ἀκανθῶν, Mt. xxvii. 29; Jn. xix. 2,—for bare thorns might have caused delirium or even death; what species of plant is referred to, is not clear. Some boldly read ἀκάνθων, from ἄκανθος, acanthus, bear’s-foot; but the meaning of ἄκανθα is somewhat comprehensive even in prof. writ.; cf. the class. Grk. Lexx. s. v. [On the “Crown of thorns” see BB.DD. s. v., and for reff. Mc. and S.]*
ἀκάνθινος, -ον, (ἄκανθα; cf. ἀμαράντινος), thorny, woven out of the twigs of a thorny plant: Μk. xv. 17; Jn. xix. 5. (Is. xxxiv. 13.) Cf. the preceding word.*
ἄ-καρπος, -ον, (καρπός), [fr. Aeschyl. down], without fruit, barren; 1. prop.: δένδρα, Jude 12. 2. metaph. not yielding what it ought to yield, [A. V. unfruitful]: Mt. xiii. 22; Mk. iv. 19; destitute of good deeds, Tit. iii. 14; 2 Pet. i. 8; contributing nothing to the instruction, improvement, comfort, of others, 1 Co. xiv. 14; by litotes pernicious, Eph. v. 11, (Sap. xv. 4; cf. Grimm on Sap. i. 11)."
ἀ-κατά-γνωστος, -ον, (καταγινώσκω), that cannot be condemned, not to be censured: Tit. ii. 8. (2 Macc. iv. 47,
and several times in eccl. writ.)*
ἀ-κατα-κάλυπτος, -ον, (κατακαλύπτω), not covered, unveiled: 1 Co. xi. 5, 13. (Polyb. 15, 27, 2; [Sept., Philo].)*
ἀ-κατά-κριτος, -ον; (κατακρίνω), uncondemned; punished without being tried: Acts xvi. 37; xxii. 25. (Not found in prof. writ.)*
ἀ-κατά-λυτος, -ον, (καταλύω), indissoluble; not subject to destruction, [A. V. endless]: ζωή, Heb. vii. 16. (4 Macc. x. 11; Dion. Hal. 10, 31.)*
ἀκατάπαστος, -ον,—found only in 2 Pet. ii. 14 in codd. A and B, from which L WH Tr mrg. have adopted it instead of the Rec. ἀκαταπαύστους, q. v. It may be derived fr. πατέομαι, pf. πέπασμαι, to taste, eat; whence ἀκατάπαστος insatiable. In prof. writ. κατάπαστος [which Bttm. conjectures may have been the original reading] signifies besprinkled, soiled, from καταπάσσω to besprinkle. For a fuller discussion of this various reading see B. 65 (57), [and WH. App. p. 170].*
ἀκατάπαυστος, -ον, (καταπαύω), unable to stop, unceasing; passively, not quieted, that cannot be quieted; with gen. of thing (on which cf. W. § 30, 4), 2 Pet. ii. 14 [R G T Tr txt.] (eyes not quieted with sin, sc. which they commit with adulterous look). (Polyb., Diod., Joseph., Plut.)*
ἀκαταστασία, -ας, ἡ, (ἀκατάστατος), instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion: 1 Co. xiv. 33: Jas. iii. 16; (Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 14, 1; [Prov. xxvi. 28; Tob. iv. 13]); plur. disturbances, disorders: of dissensions, 2 Co. xii. 20; of seditions, 2 Co. vi. 5 (cf. Mey. ad loc.); of the tumults or commotions of war; Lk. xxi. 9. (Polyb., Dion. Hal.)*
