Akatastasía — G181

Definition

feminine noun

instability, i.e. disorder

1. of seditions
2. of the tumults or commotions of war

Usually translated as

confusion, commotion, tumult

Origin

from G182

• akatástatos (G182)

Occurrences

Akatastasía occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (1), 1 Corinthians (1), 2 Corinthians (2), James (1)

• Luke 21:9 — But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions (ἀκαταστασίας), be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
• 1 Corinthians 14:33 — For God is not the author of confusion (ἀκαταστασίας), but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
• 2 Corinthians 6:5 — In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults (ἀκαταστασίαις), in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
• 2 Corinthians 12:20 — For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults (ἀκαταστασίαι):
• James 3:16 — For where envying and strife is, there is confusion (ἀκαταστασία) and every evil work.