1. lawlessness, iniquity — The state or practice of acting without regard for or in violation of divine or moral law — lawlessness, wickedness, iniquity. Both singular and plural inflections represent the same abstract concept of transgression against God's established order. Multilingual evidence: Spanish 'iniquidad/iniquidades,' Hindi 'अधर्म/अधर्मों' (adharm singular/plural — a-dharma = absence of righteousness/law, a direct semantic parallel to Greek ἀ-νομία), Arabic 'الإثمِ/آثَامِ' (al-ithm singular / āthām plural — same root أ-ث-م, sinful transgression), Korean '불법/불법들' (bulbeop = un-law / bulbeop-deul = un-laws, calquing the Greek privative α + νόμος), Swahili 'uasi/uovu/makosa' (uasi = rebellion, uovu = evil, makosa = offenses). Used of the 'mystery of lawlessness' (2 Thess 2:7), workers of lawlessness (Matt 7:23; 13:41), the lawless one (2 Thess 2:3), and God's forgiveness of iniquities (Rom 4:7; Heb 10:17). 15×
AR["آثامُهُم","آثَامِهِمْ","إِثمٍ","إِثمَ","إِثمُ","إِثمِ","الإثمِ","الإثْمِ","الإِثمُ","الإِثمِ","الإِثْمَ"]·ben["অধর্ম","অধর্মগুলি","অধর্মসমূহ,","অধর্মে?","অধর্মের","অবিধিতে","অবিধির"]·DE["Gesetzlosigkeit","ἀνομίαν","ἀνομίας"]·EN["lawlessness","lawlessnesses","to-lawlessness"]·FR["iniquité"]·heb["הָעַוְלָה","הָפְקֵרָה","לָעַוְלָה","עֲווֹנוֹת","עַוְלָה","עָוֶל","פִּשְׁעֵיהֶם","רִשְׁעָה","רָשַׁע,"]·HI["अधरम","अधर्म","अधर्म-की","अधर्म-को","अधर्म-से","अधर्मों","अपअधरमि,"]·ID["kejahatan","kelaliman","pelanggaran,","pelanggaran-hukum","pelanggaran-hukum,","pelanggaran-hukum.","pelanggaran-hukum;","pelanggaran-pelanggaran"]·IT["anomian","anomias","illegalità","iniquita"]·jav["dosa,","dosa-dosanipun,","duraka","duraka,","duraka-duraka","duraka;","duraka?"]·KO["불법","불법-으로부터","불법-을","불법들","불법들을","불법에","불법을","불법의","불법이"]·PT["iniquidade","iniquidade,","iniquidade.","iniquidades"]·RU["беззаконие","беззаконие.","беззаконию","беззакония","представьте","рабами"]·ES["a-iniquidad","de-iniquidad","iniquidad","iniquidades"]·SW["itapoa","makosa","uasi","uasi.","uasi?","uovu"]·TR["yasasızlık","yasasızlıkları","yasasızlıklarını","yasasızlıktan","yasasızlıktan,","yasasızlığa","yasasızlığı","yasasızlığın"]·urd["بداعمالیوں","بدکاری","بدکاری-کو","بدکاریاں","بے-دینی","بے-دینی-کے","بے-شریعتی","بے-شریعتی۔","بے-قانونی","بے-قانونی-سے"]
Matt 7:23, Matt 13:41, Matt 23:28, Matt 24:12, Rom 4:7, Rom 6:19, Rom 6:19, 2 Cor 6:14, 2 Thess 2:3, 2 Thess 2:7, Titus 2:14, Heb 1:9 (+3 more)
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἀνομ-ία, Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, lawlessness, lawless conduct, opposed to δικαιοσύνη, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 the negation of law, opposed to νόμος, Refs 4th c.BC+