Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

ἴδιος

Vocabulary form: 
i[dioV, -a, -on
Definition: 

one's own (e.g., people, home)

Frequency: 
114
GK: 
2625
Root: 
ijdio
Cognates: 

Idiosyncrasy (sugkra:siV, "a mixing together") is a temperament or behavior peculiar to one person or group.

Notes: 

Can be used in the sense of one's own "people" or "land." It can also be used adverbially to mean "individually.

Biblical Concordance

2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has freely given to us everything we need for a life of godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own (idia | ἰδίᾳ | dat sg fem) glory and might,
2 Peter 1:20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of scripture arises from the prophet’s own (idias | ἰδίας | gen sg fem) interpretation,
2 Peter 2:16 But he was rebuked for his own (idias | ἰδίας | gen sg fem) transgression — a dumb donkey, speaking with the voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.
2 Peter 2:22 What has happened to them illustrates the true proverb: “A dog returns to its own (idion | ἴδιον | acc sg neut) vomit, and a sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
2 Peter 3:3 Above all you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following their own (idias | ἰδίας | acc pl fem) lusts
2 Peter 3:16 as he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters, in which are some things hard to understand, things that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own (idian | ἰδίαν | acc sg fem) destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, dear friends, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard that you are not led astray by the error of these lawless people and fall from your (idiou | ἰδίου | gen sg masc) stable position.
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper (idion | ἴδιον | acc sg neut) dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness for the judgment of the great day.

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