αὐχμηρός
auchmērós · G850 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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dark and miserable
Pertaining to being not only dark, but also dirty and miserable
Examples2 Peter 1:19 And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- σκοτεινός skoteinós · G4652 · dark, in darkness
- Both describe darkness or obscurity; σκοτεινός is the standard Greek adjective for 'dark' without the connotation of dirtiness that αὐχμηρός carries, but overlaps in the 'obscure' sense
Contrasting words 2 words
- λαμπρός lamprós · G2986 · bright, shining, radiant
- Direct lexical opposite: αὐχμηρός means dark/obscure; λαμπρός means bright/shining. Standard antonym pair for darkness vs. brightness
- φωτεινός phōteinós · G5460 · full of light, well lighted, bright
- Direct lexical opposite: αὐχμηρός describes obscure/dark conditions; φωτεινός describes bright/luminous conditions. Standard light/dark antonym
In the other Testament 1 word
- חָשַׁךְ châshak · H2821 · to grow dark, to be darkened, to bring darkness
- αὐχμηρός describes something dark/obscure (literally dirty, hence dim); חָשַׁךְ is the standard Hebrew verb for darkness, used both literally and figuratively for obscurity
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dark and miserable14.58
- Used figuratively of a dim, obscure place needing illumination, as of the prophetic word compared to a lamp shining in a dark place in 2 Peter 1:19.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀυχμηρα, ἀυχμηρον (αὐχμέω to be squalid), squalid, dirty (Xenophon, Plato, and…
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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