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Strong’s G829 · Greek

αὐθάδης

authádēs · ow-thad'-ace

Origin from αὐτός (G846) and the base of ἡδονή (G2237);

Meaning self-pleasing, i.e. arrogant

In the King James Version self-willed.

In 2 verses of the King James Version

  1. Titus 1:7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
  2. 2 Peter 2:10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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