Bible Dictionaries
Uncertain, Uncertainly, Uncertainty

　　A — 1: ἄδηλος ►

　　(Strong's #82 — Adjective — adelos — ad'-ay-los )

　　denotes (a) "unseen;" with the article, translated "which appear not" (a, negative, delos, "evident"), Luke 11:44; (b) "uncertain, indistinct," 1 Corinthians 14:8 . In the Sept., Psalm 51:6 .

　　B — 1: ἀδήλως ►

　　(Strong's #84 — Adverb — adelos — ad-ay'-loce )

　　"uncertainly" (akin to A), occurs in 1 Corinthians 9:26 .

　　C — 1: ἀδηλότης ►

　　(Strong's #83 — Noun Feminine — adelotes — ad-ay-lot'-ace )

　　"uncertainty" (akin to A and B), occurs in 1 Timothy 6:17 , "(the) uncertainty (of riches)," RV (the AV translates it as an adjective, "uncertain"), i.e., riches the special character of which is their "uncertainty;" the Greek phrase is a rhetorical way of stressing the noun "riches;" when a genitive (here "of riches") precedes the governing noun (here "uncertainty") the genitive receives emphasis.