786. aspondos
Lexicon
aspondos: Irreconcilable, implacable

Original Word: ἄσπονδος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: aspondos
Pronunciation: AH-spon-dos
Phonetic Spelling: (as'-pon-dos)
KJV: implacable, truce-breaker
NASB: irreconcilable
Word Origin: [from G1 (α - Alpha) (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G4689 (σπένδω - drink offering)]

1. (literally) without libation (which usually accompanied a treaty)
2. (by implication) truceless

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
implacable, irreconcilable

From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of spendo; literally, without libation (which usually accompanied a treaty), i.e. (by implication) truceless -- implacable, truce-breaker.

see GREEK a

see GREEK spendo

HELPS Word-studies

786 áspondos (an adjective which is the negation of spondē, "a libation-sacrifice" used for making treaties and covenants) – properly, unable to please (placate) someone; implacable.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and spondé (a libation)
Definition
without libation, i.e. without truce, hence admitting of no truce
NASB Translation
irreconcilable (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 786: ἄσπονδος

ἄσπονδος, ἀσπονδον (σπονδή a libation, which, as a kind of sacrifice, accompanied the making of treaties and compacts; cf. Latinspondere); (from Thucydides down);

1. without a treaty or covenant; of things not mutually agreed upon, e. g. abstinence from hostilities, Thucydides 1, 37, etc.

2. that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable (in this sense from Aeschylus down; especially in the phrase ἄσπονδος πόλεμος, Dem. pro cor., p. 314, 16; Polybius 1, 65, 6; (Philo de sacrif. § 4); Cicero, ad Att. 9, 10, 5; (cf. Trench, § lii.)): joined with ἄστοργος, Romans 1:31 Rec.; 2 Timothy 3:3.

Forms and Transliterations
ασπονδοι άσπονδοι ἄσπονδοι ασπόνδους aspondoi áspondoi
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Englishman's Concordance
2 Timothy 3:3 Adj-NMP
GRK: ἄστοργοι ἄσπονδοι διάβολοι ἀκρατεῖς
NAS: unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips,
KJV: Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
INT: unloving unappeasable slanderers without self-control

Strong's Greek 786
1 Occurrence


ἄσπονδοι — 1 Occ.

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