Acheiropoiētos ἀχειροποίητος

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Acheiropoiētos
ἀχειροποίητος
Transliterationacheiropoiētos
Strong's numberG886
LanguageGreek
Part of speechadjective
Glossnot man-made
Occurrences3 in 3 verses
Most frequent inMark (1)

Acheiropoiētos (Greek ἀχειροποίητος, Strong's G886) is a Greek adjective meaning “not man-made”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

ἀ-χειρο-ποίητος, -ον
(χειροποίητος)
not made by hands: Mrk.14:58, 2Co.5:1; metaphorically, περιτομή ἀ. (i.e. spiritual ), Col.2:11 (MM, see word).†
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVhands (3)
BSBmade without hands (1), not built by human hands (1), not by human hands (1)

Verses

Every verse with Acheiropoiētos, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Mark

2 Corinthians

Colossians

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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