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(G5892) Synonyms for Covenant- breaker, Implacable: asynthetos (ἀσύνθετος G802), aspondos (ἄσπονδος G786).

These word are quite similar in their effects, but opposite in there conception. Asynthetos, occurring only in Rom 1:31, is "covenant-breaker", one who interrupts a state of peace and brings on war by disregarding an agreement by which peace is maintained. Aspondos is "implacable", one who refuses to agree to any terms of suggestions of peace. It implies a state of war, and a refusal of covenant or even of armistice to end it permanently or temporarily. In the N. T. use both words probably refer not to war in the strict sense so much as discord and strife.

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