Lexical Summary
haplous: Single, clear, sincere, sound
Original Word: ἁπλοῦς
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: haplous
Pronunciation: hah-PLOOS
Phonetic Spelling: (hap-looce')
KJV: single
NASB: clear
Word Origin: [probably from G1 (α - Alpha) (as a particle of union) and the base of G4120 (πλέκω - twisting)]
1. (properly) folded together, i.e. single
2. (figuratively) clear
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
single.
Probably from a (as a particle of union) and the base of pleko; properly, folded together, i.e. Single (figuratively, clear) -- single.
see GREEK a
see GREEK pleko
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 573 haploús (haploós) – properly, unfolded, single – literally, "without folds" (J. Thayer), referring to a single (undivided) focus, i.e. without a (secret) "double agenda" which prevents an over-complicated life (becoming needlessly distracted). See 572 (haplotēs).
[573 (haploús) is the antonym of the Greek term diplous meaning, "double." MM notes in the papyri that 573 (haploús) likewise means, "simple" (uncompounded, single).]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
alpha (as a cop. prefix) and perhaps
ploosDefinitionsimple, single
NASB Translationclear (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 573: ἁπλοῦςἁπλοῦς,
ἁπλῆ,
ἁπλουν (contracted from
ἁπλῶς,
ἁπλοη,
ἁπλων) (from
Aeschylus down),
simple, single (in which there is nothing complicated or confused; without folds (cf.
Trench, § lvi.));
whole; of the eye,
good, fulfilling its office,
sound:
Matthew 6:22;
Luke 11:34 — (others contend that the moral sense of the word is the only sense lexically warranted; cf.
Test xii. Patr. test. Isach. § 3
οὐ κατελάλησα τίνος, etc.
πορευόμενος ἐν ἁπλότητι ὀφθαλμῶν, ibid. § 4
πάντα ὁρᾷ ἐν ἁπλότητι,
μή ἐπιδεχόμενος ὀφθαλμοῖς πονηρίας ἀπό τῆς πλάνης τοῦ κόσμου; yet cf. Fritzsche on
Romans 12:8).
