ἀστήρικτος
astēriktos · unstable
Greek word · Strong’s number G793 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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astēriktos (ἀστήρικτος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “unstable”.
Unsteady.
How to say it
as·tē·rik·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
- Lacking solid footing, easily swept along.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Peter 2:14
They have eyes full of adultery and insatiable for sin; they entice unsteady souls; they have a heart trained in greed; they are children of a curse.
- 2 Peter 3:16
as he does also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which there are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsteady twist, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.