ἀφελότης, ἀφελοτητος, ἡ (from ἀφέλῃς without rock, smooth, plain, and this from φελλεύς rocky land), simplicity (A. V. singleness): καρδίας, Act_2:46 (found only here (and in ecclesiastical writings). The Greeks used ἀφελεια).

ἀφελότης aphelotēs 1x sincerity, simplicity, Act_2:46

*† ἀφελότης , -ητος , ἡ = cl . ἀφέλεια ( v. MM , s.v.), simplicity: Act_2:46†

ἀφελότης [page 95] Vettius Valens dispels Grimm-Thayer s aspersions once more : see p. 240 .15 , the cultured man ῥᾳδίως ἁλίσκεται ὡς ἄπειρος τῶν παθῶν ὑπ᾽ ἀφελότητος καὶ ἀδιοικησίας προδεδομένος , betrayed by simplicity and lack of practical capacity. So p. 153 .80 , if Kroll s conjecture is sound, ου φθόνῳ φερόμενοι οὐδὲ ἀφελότητι . So here is one writer neither biblical nor ecclesiastical who agrees with Luke in preferring this abstract to ἀφέλεια , which however he uses once, p. 42 .34 εἰς ἀ . τὸν τρόπον ἐμφαίνοντες . The astrologer may further be quoted for the adverb ἀφελῶς , p. 168 .23 πολλὰ δὲ ἀ . πιστεύσας ἀπώλεσεν , again confirming the colour of unworldly simplicity which appears in Act_2:46 . The same adverb may be quoted from an inscr., IosPE i. 22 .24 , ἑαυτὸν ἀ . τῇ πατρίδι εἰς ἅπαντα ἐπεδίδον , as well as in Hellenistic literature. Thus Preuschen ( HZNT ad Act_2:46 ) cites Athenaeus, Deipnos. X. 419 d (II. 412 .16 Kaibel) ἑστιαθεὶς ἀφελῶς καὶ μουσικῶς , where simple meals are contrasted with τὰ πολυτελῆ δεῖπνα . Add Kaibel 727 .14 (Christian?) εἰκοστὸν δὲ βιώσασαν ἀφελῶς ἐνιαυτόν : the same epitaph speaks of a ψυχὴν ἀφελῆ .

ἀφελότης [Etym: ἀφελής] "simplicity", NTest.

ἀφελότης, -ητος, ἡ = cl. ἀφέλεια (see MM, see word), simplicity: Act.2:46† (AS)