Lexical Summary
anexichniastos: Unsearchable, inscrutable, unfathomable
Original Word: ἀνεξιχνίαστος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: anexichniastos
Pronunciation: an-ex-ikh-nee'-as-tos
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ex-ikh-nee'-as-tos)
KJV: past finding out; unsearchable
NASB: unfathomable
Word Origin: [from G1 (α - Alpha) (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of a compound of G1537 (ἐκ - among) and a derivative of G2487 (ἴχνος - steps)]
1. not tracked out
2. (by implication) untraceable
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
past finding out; unsearchable.
From a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of a compound of ek and a derivative of ichnos; not tracked out, i.e. (by implication) untraceable -- past finding out; unsearchable.
see GREEK a
see GREEK ek
see GREEK ichnos
HELPS Word-studies
421 aneksiníastos (literally, "not able to trace the steps of") – properly, impossible to "track" ("trace the steps of"); unable to follow or fully comprehend ("incomprehensible"); inscrutable, past finding out.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
alpha (as a neg. prefix) and exichniazó (to track out)
Definitionthat cannot be traced out
NASB Translationunfathomable (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 421: ἀνεξιχνίαστοςἀνεξιχνίαστος,
ἀνεξιχνίαστον (alpha privative and
ἐξιχνιάζω to trace out),
that cannot be traced out, that cannot be comprehended (
A. V. unsearchable):
Romans 11:33;
Ephesians 3:8. (
Job 5:9;
Job 9:10; (
Job 34:24); the Prayer of Manasses 6 (see the
Sept.,
Tdf. edition, Proleg. § xxix.); several times in ecclesiastical writings.)