ἀπορία
aporía · G640 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be at a loss, to be uncertain, to be anxious, to be in doubt, consternation
To be in perplexity, with the implication of serious anxiety
ExamplesLuke 21:25 “There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἦχοςsound 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 1
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be at a loss, to be uncertain, to be anxious, to be in doubt, consternation32.9
- In Luke 21:25, Jesus describes end-time signs, “on the earth distress among nations, in perplexity (aporíai) at the roaring of the sea and the waves,” naming the state of anxious uncertainty itself as a noun.
Word family 37 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀποριας, ἡ (ἀπορέω, which see), the state of one who is ἄπορος, perplexity: Lk 21:25.…
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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