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Strong's #890 - ἄχρηστος
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- useless, unprofitable
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ἄχρησ-τος, ον,
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1. useless, unprofitable, μετάνοια Batr. 70; νέες Hdt. 1.166; ἄ. ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς γίνεται Hp. Prorrh. 2.19; οὐκ ἄ. ἥδ' ἡ ἄνοια Th. 6.16; χρεομένῳ ἄχρηστα useless if you try to use them, Hp. Art. 14; πεσεῖν ἄ. θέσφατον without effect, E. IT 121; ἄ. ἐς πόλεμον Hdt. 8.142, Lycurg. 53; πρός τι Arist. HA 560b14: c. gen. rei, ἄ. τῶν ἔργων Id. Oec. 1345a35; ἄ. τινι useless to a person, Hdt. 1.80, cf. X. Oec. 8.4 (Sup.); τῇ πόλει E. Heracl. 4; τὸ διηπορηκέναι οὐκ ἄ. Arist. Cat. 8b24.
2. = cross ἀχρεῖος (which it almost superseded in the Oratt. and later Greek), useless, do-nothing, D. 19.135 (Comp.), etc.; ἄ. πολῖται Isa 7.37; σοφισταί prob. l. in Lys. 33.3; non-effective, unwarlike, Eun.Hist.p.239D.; so (with a pun — not having received an oracle) Ath. 3.98c. Adv. -τως, ἔχειν πρός τι D. 61.43.
II unkind, cruel, θεοί Hdt. 8.111; λόγος Id. 9.111.
III Act.,
1. making no use of, c. dat., ξυνέσει τ' ἄχρηστον τῇ φύσει τε λείπεται E. Tr. 672. not used, i.e. new, ἱμάτια Luc. Lex. 9, Ath. 3.97e.
2. obsolete, Eust. 118.25, Sch.rec. S. El. 132.
3. not to be used, unseemly, EM 463.26.
ἄχρηστος, ἄχρηστον (χρηστός, and this from χράομαι), useless, unprofitable: Philemon 1:11 (here opposed to εὔχρηστος). (In Greek writings from Homer (i. e. Batrach. 70; Theognis) down.) (Synonyms: cf. Tittmann ii. 11f; Trench, § c. 17; Ellicott on Philemon 1:11.)
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P Tebt I. 74.36, .70, 75.56 .36 (both ii/B.C.) of ";unproductive"; land. So in CPHerm 7iii. 6 (ii/A.D.), but hiat contextus. It describes a pig in P Flor II. 127.14 (A.D. 256) ἀλλὰ καλὸν πάλιν ἔστω , μὴ ὡς πρώην ̣ καὶ λεπτὸν καὶ ἄχρηστον . Ib. 185.7 (A.D. 254) κατεαγμένα καὶ ἄχρηστα , of panniers, and P Oxy X. 1346 (ii/A.D. ?) ἄχρηστος [γ ]έγωναι (l. γέγονε ), of a garment. Cagnat IV. 293.14 (Pergamon, B.C. 127–6) κατεφθαρμέ [νον . . . καὶ ] . . . γεγονὸς ἄχρησ ̣[τον , of a gymnasium. The moral sense of the word comes out in P Oxy VII. 1070.50 ff. (iii/A.D.) μὴ ἀμελήσῃς μὴ ἄρα ποτὲ θέλῃς μ ̣[ε ]τὰ σ ̣[ο ]ῦ [Ἡρ ]αε ̣ι ̣δ ̣ι ̣ τὴν τήρησιν τῆς ὅλης οἰκίας παραδιδόναι ἀχρήστου ̣ οὔσης αὐτῆς , ";do not neglect this, lest indeed you choose to hand over the keeping of the whole house to Heraïs, who is unworthy"; (Ed.). The resemblance to Philem .11 is obvious. Vettius (p. 62.7) speaks of ἄχρηστα βρέφη .
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