Quick Definition
ἄκων, ἄκουσα, ἆκον Adj unwilling
Strong's Definition
unwilling
Derivation: from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G1635 (ἑκών);
KJV Usage: against the will
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | ἄκουσα, ἆκον | ἀ- + ἑκών
25.67 · Attitudes and Emotions · Be Willing
not willing, not of one’s own free will, not a matter of free choice pertaining to not being willing to do something Expressions of ‘not being willing to do something’ may often be rendered as ‘being forced to do something’ or ‘doing something because one has to.’
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄκων, ἄκουσα, ἧκον, (contr. fr. ἀέκων, a priv. and ἕκων willing), not of one’s own will, unwilling: 1 Co. ix. 17. (Very freq. among the Greeks.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἄκων akōn 1x
unwilling, 1 Cor. 9:17*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀκων (Attic contr. for ἀέκων), -ουα, -ον
(< ἀ- neg., ἅκων, willing), [in LXX: Jb 14:17, II Mac 11:12*;]
unwilling: I Co 9:17.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἄκων. This common Greek word, which in the NT is found only 1 Cor 9%’, occurs several times in the long petition of Dionysia, P Oxy II. 237¥i- 18, vii. δ, 12, 22 (4,5, 186), : cf. the fourth century Christian letter P Oxy VI. 939% (= Se/ections, p- 129) ἐς τηλικαύτην σε [ἀγωνία]ν ἄκων ἐνέβαλον, ‘unwillingly I cast you into such grief.” Add from the inscriptions, Sy// 356°° (time of Augustus) εἴτε ἑκόντα εἴτε ἄκοντα, 26. 4158 (iii/A.D.), etc.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἄκων (akōn) — unwilling. ἀέκων, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect; Attic dialect and Trag. contraction ἄκων [ᾱ], ουσα, ον (uncontraction form also in [Refs 4th c.BC+], sometimes found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+]:— involuntary, constrained, of persons, ἀέκοντος ἐμεῖο[Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to βουλόμενος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὼ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην (variant{ἄκοντε}) [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀέκουσι (variant{ἀεκούσια}) δάκρυα παραρρεῖ[Refs 5th c.BC+]: contraction first in [Refs]; ἄκοντος Διός invito Jove, [Refs 6th c.BC+]adverb ἀκόντως unwillingly, ὁμολογεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. poetical, like{ἀκούσιος}, of acts or their consequences, involuntary, κακὰ ἑκόντα κοὐκ ἄ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]