adokimos (failing)

Meaning

Usually translated “disqualified”, “unapproved” and “depraved”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

disqualified 2
unapproved 2
a depraved 1
failing 1
unfit 1
worthless 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

2 Corinthians 3
Romans 1
1 Corinthians 1
2 Timothy 1
Titus 1
Hebrews 1

6 books in all.

Related words

Failing (killavon)

Explore in Scripture

Romans 1:28And 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;
1 Corinthians 9:27But 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.
2 Corinthians 13:5Examine 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?
2 Corinthians 13:6But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
2 Corinthians 13:7Now 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.
2 Timothy 3:8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

All 8 verses, by book

Romans 1: 1:28
1 Corinthians 1: 9:27
2 Corinthians 3: 13:5 13:6 13:7
2 Timothy 1: 3:8
Titus 1: 1:16
Hebrews 1: 6:8

Greek dictionary

ἀδόκιμος adokimos · failing

ἀ-δόκιμος, -ον, [in LXX: Pro.25:4, Isa.1:22 (סִיג) * ;] 1. of things (prop. of metals: LXX, ll. with), not standing the test, rejected: γῆ, Heb.6:8. 2. Of persons, rejected after testing, reprobate: Rom.1:28, 1Co.9:27, 2Co.13:5-7, 2Ti.3:8, Tit.1:16 (Cremer, 212). † (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “failing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FA'ILING, participle present

tense Becoming deficient or insufficient; becoming weaker; decaying; declining; omitting; not executing or performing; miscarrying; neglecting; wanting; becoming bankrupt or insolvent.

All definitions and other forms of “failing”

FA'ILING, noun

The act of failing; deficiency; imperfection; lapse; fault.
The act of failing or becoming insolvent.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.