Original Word: ἄκακος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: akakos
Phonetic Spelling: (ak'-ak-os)
Short Definition: innocent, guileless, simple
Definition: innocent, guileless, simple.

172 ákakos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 2556 /kakós, "malignant") – properly, not harmful, describing someone innocent, down to their very intentions (motives), i.e. a person without any desire to hurt (harm).

172/akakos ("a character without guile") means being constitutionally harmless, free from the desire to inflict harm (grief, hurt).

[It is ultimately the negated form of 2556 /kakós ("a rotten disposition, bent on inflicting harm").]

STRONGS NT 172: ἄκακος

ἄκακος, (κακός);

a. without guile or fraud, harmless; free from guilt: Hebrews 7:26; (cf. Clement, fragment 8, Jacobson edition (Lightfoot S. Clement of Rome etc., p. 219): ἄκακος ὁ πατήρ πνεῦμα ἔδωκεν ἄκακον).

b. fearing no evil from others, distrusting no one, (cf. English guileless): Romans 16:18. ((Aeschylus) Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, others; the Sept.) (Cf. Trench, § lvi.; Tittmann i., p. 27f.)

harmless, simple, innocent.

From a (as a negative particle) and kakos; not bad, i.e. (objectively) innocent or (subjectively) unsuspecting -- harmless, simple.

see GREEK a

see GREEK kakos

άκακοι ακάκοις άκακον ακακος άκακος ἄκακος ακάκου ακάκους ακακων ακάκων ἀκάκων άκαν άκανα akakon akakōn akákon akákōn akakos ákakosInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts