Greek word · G422
ἀνεπαίσχυντος
anepaischyntos
unashamed
Not ashamed; having no reason to be ashamed; not to be put to shame.
Appears once in the Greek New Testament. ·
What it means
From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
From the study of 2 Timothy 2:15
- Range of meaning
Not ashamed; having no reason to be ashamed; not to be put to shame.
- Against the English
The BSB's 'unashamed' can sound like boldness ('unashamed of the gospel'). The KJV/WEB 'that needeth not to be ashamed' is closer: the point is that his work gives him no cause for shame when it is inspected.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Rare. It occurs only here in the New Testament. Josephus uses it (Antiquities 18.243) in the sense of not being shamed or embarrassed. The idea of shame at inspection connects to 1:8, 12, 16 in this letter, where Paul is not ashamed and Onesiphorus was not ashamed of him.
Where it appears
2 Timothy · 1
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2 Timothy 2:15 ἀνεπαίσχυντον, not ashamed,
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.
Here: A worker whose job, when the master inspects it, gives him nothing to be ashamed of. This word occurs nowhere else in the New Testament.
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.