| Easton's Bible Dictionary That which is rejected on account of its own worthlessness (Jeremiah 6:30; Hebrews 6:8; Gr. adokimos, "rejected"). This word is also used with reference to persons cast away or rejected because they have failed to make use of opportunities offered them (1 Corinthians 9:27; 2 Corinthians 13:5-7). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Not enduring proof; one who is morally lost or abandoned; rejected. 2. (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved. 3. (a.) of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. 4. (n.) One morally abandoned and lost. 5. (v. t.) To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. 6. (v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia REPROBATE The close phonetic resemblance and etymological affinity of dokimos to the verb dokimazo, "to try," "test," has caused the notion of "being tested," "tried," and its opposite of "being found wanting in the test" to associate itself more or less distinctly with the adjectives dokimos and adokimos. Thus the more complex meaning results of that which is acknowledged or rejected, because it has approved or not approved itself in testing. This connotation is present in 2 Corinthians 13:5, 6, 7 2 Timothy 3:8; Titus 1:16 Hebrews 6:8. In the first two of these passages the word is used of Christians who ostensibly were in the true faith, but either hypothetically or actually are represented as having failed to meet the test. "Reprobate unto every good work" (Titus 1:16) are they who by their life have disappointed the expectation of good works. The "reprobate (rejected) land" of Hebrews 6:8 is land that by bearing thorns and thistles has failed to meet the test of the husband man. It should be noticed, however, that adokimos, even in these cases, always retains the meaning of rejection because of failure in trial; compare in the last-named passage: "rejected and nigh unto cursing."
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Cremer, Biblisch-theologisches Worterbuch der neutestamentlichen Gracitat(10), 356-57.
Geerhardus Vos |  | Multi-Version Concordance Reprobate (8 Occurrences) Romans 1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS) 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (Root in KJV ASV DBY WBS) 2 Corinthians 13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. (Root in KJV ASV DBY WBS) 2 Corinthians 13:7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS) 2 Timothy 3:8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. (WEB KJV ASV WBS) Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. (KJV ASV WBS) Psalms 15:4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not; (ASV NAS RSV) Jeremiah 6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. (KJV DBY WBS) |
