uncondemned
akatakritos describes someone subjected to punishment or restraint without having been condemned.
The two occurrences describe a person not condemned before punitive treatment: public beating and imprisonment in Acts 16:37, and proposed whipping in Acts 22:25.
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Not condemned before punishment · dominant
In Acts 16:37, the accusative plural masculine form refers to Paul and his companion as publicly beaten and imprisoned “without trial.” In Acts 22:25, the accusative singular masculine form occurs in Paul’s question about whipping a Roman person whom the APB calls “uncondemned.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “uncondemned” in Acts 22:25; in Acts 16:37 it presents the same situation as being beaten “without trial.” These phrases describe the verse contexts rather than fixed English renderings of the term.