Word Summary
anepilēptos: without reproach
Original Word: ἀνεπίληπτοςTransliteration: anepilēptos
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ep-eel'-ape-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: without reproach
Meaning: without reproach
Strong's Concordance
blameless, unrebukeable.
From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of epilambanomai; not arrested, i.e. (by implication) inculpable -- blameless, unrebukeable.
see GREEK a
see GREEK epilambanomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 423: ἀνεπίληπτοςἀνεπίληπτος (
L T Tr WH ἀνεπίλημπτος; see Mu,
ἀνεπίληπτον (alpha privative and
ἐπιλαμβάνω), properly,
not apprehended, that cannot be laid hold of; hence,
that cannot be reprehended, not open to censure, irreproachable (Tittmann i., p. 31;
Trench, § ciii.):
1 Timothy 3:2;
1 Timothy 5:7;
1 Timothy 6:14. (Frequent in Greek writings from (
Euripides and)
Thucydides down.)