What does ἄναλος (ánalos) mean in the Bible?
ἄναλος (ánalos): Describes something that has lost its essential preserving or flavoring quality, rendering it useless.
Greek · G358
ἄναλος
Unsalty
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ἄναλοςG358
Pronunciationánalos
What does ἄναλος (ánalos) mean in the Bible?
ἄναλος (ánalos): Describes something that has lost its essential preserving or flavoring quality, rendering it useless.
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How does the BSB render G358?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include its saltiness (1).
Where does ἄναλος (ánalos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 9:50. Its strongest book concentrations include Mark (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itits saltiness1×Mark 9:50
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowMark 9:50
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Mark1
Source forms
ἄναλον1xanalonMark 9:50
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular1xMark 9:50
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Describes something that has lost its essential preserving or flavoring quality, rendering it useless.
Strong'sG358
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
unsalty
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Describes something that has lost its essential preserving or flavoring quality, rendering it useless.
(ἅλς), [in Aq.: Eze.13:10-11, 15 22:28 * ;] saltless, insipid: Mrk.9:50.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Mark 9:50Adjective Nominative Singular Neuter
ἄναλονanalon
saltless, tasteless, flat
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · NeuterMark 9:501×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
Mark 9:49–50ἄναλοςánalos
unsalted, lacking salt
Word Origins
ἄναλος is built from these roots:
+ἅλςG251