anomos · lawless

What it means

anomos (ἄνομος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “lawless”.

Wicked; also without the law, not under the law of Moses.

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. Not having Moses' commandments.
2. Who respects no rule; wicked.

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

How it is translated

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

• lawless ×5
• without the law ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×4
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Peter×1

• Luke 22:37

  For I tell you that this that is written must be accomplished in me: ‘And he was counted with the lawless.’ For indeed what is written about me has its fulfillment.”

• Acts 2:23

  this man, handed over by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed by nailing him to a cross by the hand of lawless men.

• 1 Corinthians 9:21

  to those without the law as one without the law (not being without the law of God but under the law of the Messiah), so that I might win those without the law.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:8

  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the radiance of his coming,

• 1 Timothy 1:9

  knowing this, that law is not laid down for a righteous person but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers and those who kill their mothers, for murderers,

• 2 Peter 2:8

  (for by what he saw and heard, that righteous man, living among them, was tormenting his righteous soul day after day with their lawless deeds);

And 3 more times.