STRONGS G824:
ἄτοπος,
-ον, (
τόπος),
out of place; not befitting, unbecoming (so in Greek writings from Thucydides down; very often in Plato); in later Greek in an ethical sense,
improper, wicked:
Luke 23:41 (
ἄτοπόν τι πράσσειν, as in
Job 27:6; 2 Macc. 14:23);
Acts 25:5 L T Tr WH; (
Sept. for
אָוֶן.
Job 4:8;
Job 11:11, etc. Josephus, Antiquities 6, 5, 6; Plutarch, de aud. poët. c. 3
φαυλά and
ἄτοπα); of men:
2 Thessalonians 3:2 (
ἄτοποι καὶ πονηροί; Luth.
unartig, more correctly
unrighteous [(
iniquus),
A. V. unreasonable, cf. Ellicott at the passage]).
inconvenient, harmful:
Acts 28:6 μηδὲν ἄτοπον εἰς αὐτὸν γινόμενον, no injury, no harm coming to him (Thucydides 2, 49; Josephus, Antiquities 11, 5, 2; Herodian, 4, 11, 7 [4, Bekker edition]).
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