Original Word: ἁπλῶς
Part of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: haplós
Phonetic Spelling: (hap-loce')
Short Definition: simply, sincerely
Definition: simply, sincerely, graciously, bountifully.

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).

STRONGS NT 574: ἁπλῶς

ἁπλῶς, adverb (from Aeschylus down), simply, openly, frankly, sincerely: James 1:5 (led solely by his desire to bless).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

liberally, sincerely

Adverb 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 haplō̂s

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