"unable to stand test, rejected, refuse, worthless"
Definition and meaning
unable to stand test, rejected, refuse, worthless
In the original Greek the word is written: ἀδόκιμος
Historical context
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, one of the most important commercial cities in the empire. Rome had a Jewish population of around 50,000. The letter addresses real tensions between Jewish believers with centuries of Torah tradition and Gentile believers with no such background. Emperor Nero was on the throne. Within ten years he would execute both Paul and Peter.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of adokimos (G96) across the King James Bible.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
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Common questions
Strong's G96 (adokimos) is a Greek word that means: unable to stand test, rejected, refuse, worthless It appears 7 times in the King James Bible.
The word adokimos (G96) appears 7 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G96 is adokimos, a Greek word defined as: unable to stand test, rejected, refuse, worthless. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
adokimos is a Greek word found in the New Testament.