ataktos describes a manner of walking marked by doing no work and prompting withdrawal from such conduct.

The term describes a manner of conduct associated with doing no work: 2 Thessalonians 3:11 identifies some as walking this way while being busybodies, and 2 Thessalonians 3:6 directs believers to withdraw from a brother walking this way rather than according to received tradition.

1. Workless conduct requiring separation · dominant

   In 2 Thessalonians 3:11, the adverb modifies “walking” in a clause about some who do no work but are busybodies. In 2 Thessalonians 3:6, it again modifies “walking” and identifies the conduct from which believers are told to withdraw; the APB renders both clauses with “walking idly.”

   2 Thessalonians 3:112 Thessalonians 3:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “walking idly” in both 2 Thessalonians 3:11 and 2 Thessalonians 3:6. This wording is treated as the rendering of the clauses rather than a precise lexical equivalence.