Word Summary
ataktos: out of order, out of place
Original Word: ἄτακτοςTransliteration: ataktos
Phonetic Spelling: (at'-ak-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: out of order, out of place
Meaning: out of order, out of place
Strong's Concordance
unruly.
From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of tasso; unarranged, i.e. (by implication) insubordinate (religiously) -- unruly.
see GREEK a
see GREEK tasso
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 813: ἄτακτοςἄτακτος,
ἄτακτον (
τάσσω),
disorderly, out of the ranks, (often so of soldiers); irregular, inordinate (
ἀτακτοι ἡδοναι immoderate pleasures,
Plato, legg. 2, 660 b.;
Plutarch, de book educ. c. 7),
deviating from the prescribed order or rule:
1 Thessalonians 5:14, cf.
2 Thessalonians 3:6. (In Greek writings from (
Herodotus and)
Thucydides down; often in
Plato.)