adokimos · disqualified, unfit

What it means

adokimos (ἀδόκιμος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “disqualified, unfit”.

Disqualified: failing the test and so rejected; worthless, unfit.

How to say it

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

1. Failing the test; land that is useless.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• disqualified ×5
• unfit ×2
• worthless ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×3
• 2 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×1

• Romans 1:28

  And since they did not see fit to have God in knowledge, God handed them over to an unfit mind, to do the things that are not proper,

• 1 Corinthians 9:27

  But I pummel my body and enslave it, for fear that somehow, after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified.

• 2 Corinthians 13:5

  Test yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; examine yourselves. Or do you not recognize about yourselves that Jesus the Messiah is in you? —unless you are disqualified!

• 2 Corinthians 13:6

  And I hope that you will know that we are not disqualified.

• 2 Corinthians 13:7

  Now we pray to God that you may do nothing wrong, not so that we may appear approved, but so that you may do what is good, and we may be as if disqualified.

• 2 Timothy 3:8

  And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified with regard to the faith.

• Titus 1:16

  They profess to know God, but by their works they deny him, being detestable and disobedient and unfit for any good work.

• Hebrews 6:8

  but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to a curse, whose end is for burning.