STRONGS G786:
ἄσπονδος,
-ον, (
σπονδή a libation, which, as a kind of sacrifice, accompanied the making of treaties and compacts; cf. Latin
spondere); [from Thucydides down];
1. without a treaty or
covenant; of things not mutually agreed upon,
e. g. abstinence from hostilities, Thucydides 1, 37, etc.
2. that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable (in this sense from Aeschylus down; especially in the phrase
ἄσπονδος πόλεμος, Dem. pro cor., p. 314, 16; Polybius 1, 65, 6; [Philo de sacrif. § 4]; Cicero, ad Att. 9, 10, 5; [cf. Trench, § lii.]): joined with
ἄστοργος,
Romans 1:31 Rec.;
2 Timothy 3:3.
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