ἐννεός
enneós · G1769 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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speechless, dumbfounded
Pertaining to incapacity to speak, whether temporary or permanent, but in the NT only temporary and associated with fright or amazement
ExamplesActs 9:7 The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- κωφός kōphós · G2974 · dumb, mute, unable to speak
- Standard Greek term for inability to speak; κωφός often denotes a physical or permanent condition, whereas ἐννεός emphasizes the temporary state of speechlessness from astonishment.
Contrasting words 1 word
- λαλέω laléō · G2980 · to speak, to say, to talk
- The action of speaking is the direct lexical opposite of being dumb/speechless
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Speechless, dumbfounded33.108
- This adjective describes being rendered mute with astonishment, used of Paul's traveling companions on the road to Damascus who stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one — "The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one" (Acts 9:7).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see ἐννεός. G1769 — ἐννεός , more correctly ἐνεός (L T Tr WH (cf. the preceding word)),…
G1769 — ἐννεός
, more correctly ἐνεός (L T Tr WH (cf. the preceding word)), ἐννεου, ὁ (it seems to be identical with ἀνεως equivalent to unused ἀναυος, ἀναος, from ἄω, αὔω to cry out, hence, without sound, mute), dumb, mute, destitute of the power of speech (Plato, Aristotle): Isa 56:10, cf. Prov 17:28; ἐνεόν μή δυνάμενον λαλῆσαι, of an idol, Baruch 6:40 (Epistle Jer.); unable to speak for terror, struck dumb, astounded: so εἱστήκεισαν ἐνεοί, stood speechless (Vulg.stabantstupefacti), Acts 9:7; Hesychius ἐμβροντηθεντες. ἐνεοί γενόμενοι. Cf. Alberti, Glossary in N. T., p. 69. In the same sense ἀπηνεώθη, Dan 4:16 Theod., from ἀπενεόω.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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