ἄδολος

adolos

pure

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Strong’s G97Adjective1 time in the New Testament (critical text)

Where it occurs

1 Peter1

Translated as

pure1

In the text

1 Peter 2:2ἄδολον
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

Abbott-Smith

ἄδολος, -ον,

1. guileless (Pind., Thuc).

2. Of liquids (Æsch., Eur., and late prose writers), genuine, pure (in π. and in MGr. of wine, also of corn: MM, VGT, see word; Milligan, NTD, 77): of milk, metaphorically, 1Pe.2:2.
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SYN.: ἀκέραιος (which see), ἄκακος, ἁπλοῦς.
(AS)

Sources: Abbott-Smith’s Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922, public domain) and glosses from STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAGNT (Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.