Strong's Concordance haplós: simply, sincerely Original Word: ἁπλῶςPart of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: haplós Phonetic Spelling: (hap-loce') Short Definition: simply, sincerely Definition: simply, sincerely, graciously, bountifully. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 574 haplṓs (the adverbial form of 573 /haploús, "single, unfolded") – properly, acting with simplicity – literally, "without folds" (WP, J. Thayer), i.e. without undue complications. See 572 (haplotēs). 574 /haplṓs ("simply"), used only in Js 1:5, refers to God "generously" giving wisdom – which is better translated "giving undividedly, openly" (literally, "unfolded, holding nothing back"). Js 1:5,6: "5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously (574 /haplṓs) and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6But he must [continuously, in process] ask in faith (4102 /pístis) without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind" (NASU). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 574: ἁπλῶςἁπλῶς, adverb (from Aeschylus down), simply, openly, frankly, sincerely: James 1:5 (led solely by his desire to bless). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance liberally, sincerelyAdverb from haplous (in the objective sense of haplotes); bountifully; --liberally. see GREEK haplous see GREEK haplotes Forms and Transliterations απλως απλώς ἁπλῶς aplos aplōs haplos haplôs haplōs haplō̂sLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 5741 Occurrence ἁπλῶς — 1 Occ. James 1:5 Adv GRK: θεοῦ πᾶσιν ἁπλῶς καὶ μὴ NAS: to all generously and without KJV: to all [men] liberally, and INT: God to all freely and without |