the Third Week of Advent
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary Greek Lexicon
Strong's #790 - ἀστατέω
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
- to wander about, to rove without a settled abode
- Book
- Word
- Parsing
did not use
this Strong's Number
ἀστᾰτέω,
1. to be never at rest, πόλοιο φορὰν.. -έουσαν App.Anth. 3.146.4 (Theon); of the sea, Plu. Crass. 17; βλέμμα ἀστατοῦν Hippiatr. 3.
2. to be unsettled, to be a wanderer, 1 Corinthians 4:11; to be inconstant, περὶ τοὺς γάμους Vett.Val. 116.30.
ἀστατέω, ἀστάτω; (ἄστατος unstable, strolling about; cf. ἀκατάστατος); to wander about, to rove without a settled abode (A. V. to have no certain dwelling-place): 1 Corinthians 4:11. (Anthol. Pal. appendix 39, 4.)
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights rserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
**† ἀστατέω , -ῶ
(< ἄστατος , unstable),
[in Aq.: Isaiah 58:7 (LXX, ἄστεγος )*;]
to be unsettled, be homeless, lead a vagabond life (Cremer, 738 MM, s.v.): 1 Corinthians 4:11 †
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
In Isaiah 58:7 Aquila substitutes ἀστατοῦντας for LXX ἀστέγους , while in Genesis 4:12 Symmachus translates נָע וָנָד ";a fugitive and a vagabond"; by ἀνάστατος καὶ ἀκατάστατος . There would seem therefore to be a certain degree of ";unsettlement"; associated with the word; and accordingly Field (Notes, p. 170) proposes to render 1 Corinthians 4:11 καὶ ἀστατοῦμεν by ";and are vagabonds,"; or ";and lead a vagabond life."; Grimm gives no profane warrant but a passage in the Anthology. We can add Vettius Valens, p.116.30 : the entrance of Mercury into a certain horoscope will produce πρακτικοὶ . . . καὶ εὐεπίβολοι καὶ φρόνιμοι καὶ ἐπαφρόδιτοι , πολύκοιτοι δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ πολὺ ἀστατοῦντες περὶ τοὺς γάμους , ";very inconstant."; He has the adj. p. 57.6 ἄστατος καὶ ἐπίφοβος διάξει ";he will live an unsettled life and liable to panic."; It occurs also in Epicurus 65.10 τὴν δὲ τύχην ἄστατον ὁρᾶν (Linde Epic. p. 36, where literary parallels are given).
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
