Lexical Summary akakos: guileless Original Word: ἄκακοςTransliteration: akakos Phonetic Spelling: (ak'-ak-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: guileless Meaning: guileless Strong's Concordance harmless, simple, innocent.From a (as a negative particle) and kakos; not bad, i.e. (objectively) innocent or (subjectively) unsuspecting -- harmless, simple. see GREEK a see GREEK kakos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 172: ἄκακοςἄκακος, (κακός); a. without guile or fraud, harmless; free from guilt: Hebrews 7:26; (cf. Clement, fragment 8, Jacobson edition (Lightfoot S. Clement of Rome etc., p. 219): ἄκακος ὁ πατήρ πνεῦμα ἔδωκεν ἄκακον). b. fearing no evil from others, distrusting no one, (cf. English guileless): Romans 16:18. ((Aeschylus) Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, others; the Sept.) (Cf. Trench, § lvi.; Tittmann i., p. 27f.) |
    |