The Greek adjective akratos means 'unmixed' or 'undiluted' — something in its full, unadulterated strength, especially wine that has not been mixed with water. In the ancient world, wine was normally diluted; to drink it akratos was to drink it at full potency. In Revelation 14:10, it describes the undiluted wrath of God poured out at the final judgment.
Akratos appears once in the New Testament, in one of the most terrifying passages in Revelation: those who worship the beast 'will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength (akratos) into the cup of his anger' (Revelation 14:10). Ancient readers understood the force of this immediately — undiluted wine was a symbol of overwhelming power and excess. The full, uncut, unmixed wrath of the Almighty is beyond human imagining. This text is the culmination of a biblical trajectory that runs from the cup of God's wrath in Isaiah 51:17 through Jeremiah 25:15 to Revelation's final bowls. It is meant to serve as a solemn warning — and also as the assurance of ultimate justice — that those who persist in rebellion against God will face His wrath in its full, unmitigated force.