Lexicon
ἄθεος
atheos
G0112
G:A Greek

without God

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Atheos describes people portrayed as lacking God amid alienation and hopelessness.

The sole attested use portrays people as lacking God within a cluster of alienation, exclusion from the promise's covenants, and absence of hope.

Senses in use

  1. Lacking God amid alienation and hopelessness · dominant

    In Ephesians 2:12, the nominative plural masculine form describes those said to be alienated from Israel's citizenship, foreign to the covenants of the promise, and without hope; the APB renders the clause “without God in the world.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Ephesians 2:12, the APB presents the clause as “without God in the world.” This wording confirms the verse's portrayal without isolating every aspect of the term's contribution.

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