Lexical Summary
haplotés: Simplicity, sincerity, generosity, liberality
Original Word: ἁπλότης
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: haplotés
Pronunciation: hap-LOT-ace
Phonetic Spelling: (hap-lot'-ace)
KJV: bountifulness, liberal(-ity), simplicity, singleness
NASB: liberality, sincerity, simplicity
Word Origin: [from G573 (ἁπλοῦς - clear)]
1. singleness
2. (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self-seeking)
3. (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
bountifulness, simplicity, singleness.
From haplous; singleness, i.e. (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self-seeking), or (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal) -- bountifulness, liberal(-ity), simplicity, singleness.
see GREEK haplous
HELPS Word-studies
572 haplótēs (from 1 /A "not" and from pel-, "fold," cf. DNTT, 3, 572) – properly, "singleness, without folds, like a piece of cloth unfolded" (WP, 1, 56), i.e. not compounded or over-complicated (needlessly complex); "single-threaded" (versus "multi-threaded"); "without folds, simplex" (J. Thayer), used of "unworldly simplicity" (as in the papyri, MM).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
haplousDefinitionsingleness, hence simplicity
NASB Translationliberality (4), simplicity (1), sincerity (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 572: ἁπλότηςἁπλότης,
ἁπλητος,
ἡ,
singleness, simplicity, sincerity, mental honesty; the virtue of one who is free from pretence and dissimulation (so in Greek writings from
Xenophon, Cyril 1, 4, 3; Hell. 6, 1, 18 down):
ἐν ἁπλότητι (
L T Tr WH ἁγιοτητι)
καί εἰλικρίνεια θεοῦ i. e. infused by God through the Spirit (
Winer's Grammar, § 36, 3 b.),
2 Corinthians 1:12;
ἐν ἁπλότητι τῆς καρδίας (
לֵבָב יֹשֶׁר,
1 Chronicles 29:17),
Colossians 3:22;
Ephesians 6:5 (Wis. 1:1);
εἰς Χριστόν, sincerity of mind toward Christ, i. e. single-hearted faith in Christ, as opposed to false wisdom in matters pertaining to Christianity,
2 Corinthians 11:3;
ἐν ἁπλότητι in simplicity, i. e. without self-seeking,
Romans 12:8.
openness of heart manifesting itself by benefactions, liberality, (
Josephus, Antiquities 7, 13, 4; but in opposition see Fritzsche on Romans, vol. iii., 62f):
2 Corinthians 8:2;
2 Corinthians 9:11, 13 (
τῆς κοινωνίας, manifested by fellowship). Cf. Kling under the word 'Einfalt' in
Herzog iii., p. 723f.