Excerpt From BDAG ἀδόκιμος not standing the test’, then unqualified, worthless, base

 

ἀδόκιμος, ον (Democr. et al.; also Polyb. 6, 25, 8; 16, 14, 9; ins, pap; Pr 25:4; Is 1:22) ‘not standing the test’, then unqualified, worthless, base of pers. (X., De Rep. Lac. 3, 3; Plut., Mor. 4c ἀνθρώποις ἀδοκίμοις ἐγχειρίζουσι τ. παῖδας; Herodian 7, 7, 5; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 236 ἀ. σοφισταί; Did., Gen. 122, 6) 1 Cor 9:27; ITr 12:3. 2 Cor 13:5–7 (on the self-affirmation cp. Demosth. 18, 111); ἀνὴρ ἀ. ἀπείραστος a man who is not tempted is unproved Agr 21. W. indication of the respect in which the test is not met ἀδόκιμοι περὶ τὴν πίστιν 2 Ti 3:8; πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἀ. unfit for any good deed Tit 1:16.—Of things (Philo, Conf. Lingu. 198; PCairZen 176, 64 [III b.c.] of money) barren soil Hb 6:8. Of the gentile νοῦς in a play on words w. οὐ δοκιμάζειν Ro 1:28.—DELG s.v. δοκάω. TW. Spicq.

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