Original Word: ἀκαταστασία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: akatastasia
Pronunciation: ah-kah-tah-stah-SEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-at-as-tah-see'-ah)
KJV: commotion, confusion, tumult
NASB: disturbances, confusion, disorder, tumults
Word Origin: [from G182 (ἀκατάστατος - restless)]

1. instability, i.e. disorder

commotion, confusion, tumult.

From akatastatos; instability, i.e. Disorder -- commotion, confusion, tumult.

see GREEK akatastatos

181 akatastasía (from 1 /A "not," 2596 /katá, "down" and stasis, "status, standing," cf. 2476 /hístēmi) – properly, can not stand (remain steady); unsettled, unstable (in tumult); (figuratively) instability bringing on disorder (disturbance).

181 /akatastasía ("commotion") generates confusion (things being "out of control"), i.e. when "up for grabs." This uncertainty and tumult inevitably generates more instability.

Word Origin
from akatastatos
Definition
instability
NASB Translation
confusion (1), disorder (1), disturbances (2), tumults (1).

STRONGS NT 181: ἀκαταστασία

ἀκαταστασία, (ας, ἡ (ἀκατάστατος), instability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion: 1 Corinthians 14:33; James 3:16; (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 14, 1 [ET]; (Proverbs 26:28; Tobit 4:13)); plural disturbances, disorders: of dissensions, 2 Corinthians 12:20; of seditions, 2 Corinthians 6:5 (Cf. Meyer at the passage); of the tumults or commotions of war, Luke 21:9 (Polybius, Dionysius Halicarnassus).

Forms and Transliterations

ακαταστασια ακαταστασία ἀκαταστασία ακαταστασιαι ακαταστασίαι ἀκαταστασίαι ακαταστασιαις ακαταστασίαις ἀκαταστασίαις ακαταστασίαν ακαταστασιας ακαταστασίας ἀκαταστασίας akatastasia akatastasía akatastasiai akatastasíai akatastasiais akatastasíais akatastasias akatastasías

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