What does ἀσώτως (asṓtōs) mean in the Bible?
ἀσώτως (asṓtōs): Reckless, wasteful spending or living; not necessarily morally dissolute but financially extravagant.
Greek · G811
ἀσώτως
Dissolutely
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ἀσώτως G811
Pronunciation asṓtōs
What does ἀσώτως (asṓtōs) mean in the Bible?
ἀσώτως (asṓtōs): Reckless, wasteful spending or living; not necessarily morally dissolute but financially extravagant.
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How does the BSB render G811?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include in wild (1).
Where does ἀσώτως (asṓtōs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 15:13. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (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 It in wild 1× Luke 15:13
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First aligned row Luke 15:13
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Luke 1
Source forms
ἀσώτως 1x asōtōs Luke 15:13
Parsing patterns
Adverb 1x Luke 15:13
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Reckless, wasteful spending or living; not necessarily morally dissolute but financially extravagant.
Strong's G811
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
dissolutely
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Reckless, wasteful spending or living; not necessarily morally dissolute but financially extravagant.
adv. (ἄσωτος, prodigal, wasteful), [in LXX for סָרַר, Pro.7:11 * ;] wastefully: Luk.15:13 (EV, in riotous living; but not necessarily dissolute; cf. MM, ut supr.; Milligan, NTD, 79).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 15:13 Adverb
ἀσώτως. aswtwv
prodigally, with prodigal living
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 patterns 1 Aligned forms 1
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Luke 15:13 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
Luke 15:11–32 ἀσώτως asṓtōs
Recklessly, wastefully
Word Origins
ἀσώτως is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain