ἀχειροποίητος
acheiropoiētos · not made by hands
Greek word · Strong’s number G886 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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acheiropoiētos (ἀχειροποίητος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “not made by hands”.
Not made by human hands.
How to say it
a·chei·ro·poi·ē·tos
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Not produced by human skill; God's work.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- made with hands ×2
- made by hands ×1
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Mark 14:58
“We heard him saying, ‘I will destroy this sanctuary made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”
- 2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of the tent is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- Colossians 2:11
In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, in the stripping off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah,