The corpus record

ἀβοήθ-ητος

aboethetos

admitting of no help, without remedy, incurable

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Where it lives

Enchiridion 3 · 6.05/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Discourses 5 · 0.67/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k

What it meant — LSJ

admitting of no help, without remedy, incurable, fatal, unserviceable, useless

admitting of no help, without remedy, incurable, of disease, Hp. Acut. (Sp.) 33; πάθος Plu. Cohib. 2.454d; of wounds, Plb. 1.81.5, etc.; fatal, of poisons, Thphr. HP 9.16.6; ἀ. ἔχειν τὴν ἐπικουρίαν, unserviceable, useless, D.S. 20.42; νὺξ ἀ. Gal. 19.481. Adv. -τως Dsc. Ther. 12, Gal. 5.122.

II helpless

of persons, helpless, LXX Ps. 87(88).6, Plu. Arat. 2, Epict. Ench. 24; γυνὴ χήρα καὶ ἀ. BGU 970.8 (ii A. D.).

III unhelpful

Act., unhelpful, ἀφιλανθρωπία -ήτους ποιεῖ Phld. Oec. p.68J.

In the wild

ἀβοήθητον · aboēthēton Epictetus, Discourses 1.11 (DIORISIS sentence 603)
ἀβοήθητον · aboēthēton Epictetus, Discourses 2.15 (DIORISIS sentence 2740)
ἀβοήθητος · aboēthētos Epictetus, Discourses 3.13 (DIORISIS sentence 4491)
ἀβοηθήτου · aboēthētou Epictetus, Discourses 3.13 (DIORISIS sentence 4453)
ἀβοήθητός · aboēthētos Epictetus, Discourses 3.13 (DIORISIS sentence 4456)
ἀβοήθητοι · aboēthētoi Epictetus, Enchiridion 24 (DIORISIS sentence 136)

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