Strong's Concordance aspondos: without libation, i.e. without truce, hence admitting of no truce Original Word: ἄσπονδος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: aspondos Phonetic Spelling: (as'-pon-dos) Short Definition: implacable Definition: implacable, not to be bound by truce. HELPS Word-studies 786 áspondos (an adjective which is the negation of spondē, "a libation-sacrifice" used for making treaties and covenants) – properly, unable to please (placate) someone; implacable. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 786: ἄσπονδοςἄσπονδος, ἀσπονδον (σπονδή a libation, which, as a kind of sacrifice, accompanied the making of treaties and compacts; cf. Latinspondere); (from Thucydides down); 1. without a treaty or covenant; of things not mutually agreed upon, e. g. abstinence from hostilities, Thucydides 1, 37, etc. 2. that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable (in this sense from Aeschylus down; especially in the phrase ἄσπονδος πόλεμος, Dem. pro cor., p. 314, 16; Polybius 1, 65, 6; (Philo de sacrif. § 4); Cicero, ad Att. 9, 10, 5; (cf. Trench, § lii.)): joined with ἄστοργος, Romans 1:31 Rec.; 2 Timothy 3:3. From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of spendo; literally, without libation (which usually accompanied a treaty), i.e. (by implication) truceless -- implacable, truce-breaker. see GREEK a see GREEK spendo Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 7861 Occurrence ἄσπονδοι — 1 Occ. 2 Timothy 3:3 Adj-NMP GRK: ἄστοργοι ἄσπονδοι διάβολοι ἀκρατεῖς NAS: unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, KJV: Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, INT: unloving unappeasable slanderers without self-control |
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