# G890 ἄχρηστος

ἄχρηστος (áchrēstos), Strong’s G890: inefficient, i.e. (by implication) detrimental KJV: unprofitable. Occurs 11 times.

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*áchrēstos* — inefficient, i.e. (by implication) detrimental

KJV: unprofitable

Built from [Α A](https://besorah.bible/word/G1) (the first letter of the alphabet) + [χρηστός chrēstós](https://besorah.bible/word/G5543) (employed)

Occurs 11 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Philemon 1:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/philemon/1?v=11) — who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.
- [Wisdom of Solomon 2:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/2?v=11) — But let our strength be a law of righteousness; for that which is weak is proven useless.
- [Wisdom of Solomon 3:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/3?v=11) — for he who despises wisdom and discipline is miserable. Their hope is void and their toils unprofitable. Their works…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 4:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/4?v=5) — Their branches will be broken off before they come to maturity. Their fruit will be useless, never ripe to eat, and fit…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 13:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/13?v=10) — But they were miserable, and their hopes were in dead things, who called them gods which are works of men’s hands, gold…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=29) — for the hope of the unthankful will melt as the winter’s hoar frost, and will flow away as water that has no use.
- [Sirach 16:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/16?v=1) — 
- [Sirach 37:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/37?v=19) — There is one who is clever and the instructor of many, and yet is unprofitable to his own soul.
- [2 Maccabees 7:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/7?v=5) — And when he was utterly maimed, the king gave orders to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the…
- [3 Maccabees 3:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/3?v=29) — Whatever place shelters a Jew shall be made unapproachable and shall be put under the ban of fire, and be forever…