Strong's Concordance
anapologétos: without excuse
Original Word: ἀναπολόγητος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: anapologétos
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ap-ol-og'-ay-tos)
Short Definition: indefensible, inexcusable
Definition: without (ground of) defense, indefensible, inexcusable.
HELPS Word-studies
379 anapológētos (an adjective, derived from 1 /A "not" and 626 /apologéomai, "to argue a case") – properly, without rationale, lacking any justified defense (argument) – hence inexcusable because without any genuine foundation.
379 /anapológētos ("without rationale or convincing argument") refers to what is utterly inadmissible, i.e. impossible to accept (without solid logic). 379 (anapológētos) then refers to something that completely lacks merit.
[379 (anapológētos) comes from "alpha privative" (a/"not") and apologeomai ("to defend, excuse"). It "occurs in documents from the second century before Christ. Frequently it describes the hopelessness of trying to defend a case in court, while lacking an adequate defense. The term is not used in the Septuagint" (CBL).]
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 379: ἀναπολόγητοςἀναπολόγητος,
ἀναπολογητον,
without defense or excuse, Romans 1:20; also
that cannot be defended, inexcusable, Romans 2:1. (
Polybius,
Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 7, 46;
Plutarch, Brut. 46, others.)
