"lawless, without law, not subject to law, 1 Cor. 9:21; lawless, violating law, wicked, impious, Acts 2:23; a transgressor, Mk. 15:28; Lk. 22:37"
Definition and meaning
lawless, without law, not subject to law, 1 Cor. 9:21; lawless, violating law, wicked, impious, Acts 2:23; a transgressor, Mk. 15:28; Lk. 22:37
In the original Greek the word is written: ἄνομος
Historical context
The Gospel of Mark moves urgently — the word "immediately" appears over 40 times. It was written for a Roman audience familiar with power and action. Jesus is portrayed as a man who acts, heals, and commands authority that the Roman world had never seen from a Jewish teacher.
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 anomos (G459) across the King James Bible.
And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
To them that are without law, as without law,(being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
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Common questions
Strong's G459 (anomos) is a Greek word that means: lawless, without law, not subject to law, 1 Cor. 9:21; lawless, violating law, wicked, impious, Acts 2:23; a transgressor, Mk. 15:28; Lk. 22:37 It appears 7 times in the King James Bible.
The word anomos (G459) appears 7 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G459 is anomos, a Greek word defined as: lawless, without law, not subject to law, 1 Cor. 9:21; lawless, violating law, wicked, impious, Acts 2:23; a transgressor, Mk. 15:28; Lk. 22:37. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
anomos is a Greek word found in the New Testament.