ἄτοπος

atopos · wrong, out of place

Greek word · Strong’s number G824 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

atopos (ἄτοπος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “wrong, out of place”.

Wrong, improper, out of place; unusual, harmful.

How to say it

a·to·pos

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. Out of line.
  2. Odd, out of the ordinary.

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

How it is translated

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

  • wrong ×2
  • perverse ×1
  • unusual ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Luke 23:41

    And we indeed are here justly, for we are receiving back what is due for what we did; but this man has done nothing wrong.”

  • Acts 25:5

    “So,” he says, “let those among you who have authority, going down with me, accuse him, if there is anything wrong in the man.”

  • Acts 28:6

    But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly fall dead. But after they had waited a long time and seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their view and were saying that he was a god.

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:2

    and that we may be rescued from perverse and evil people, for not all have faith.