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ἀφρός

aphrós · G876 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. foam

    (Derivative of ἀφρίζω ‘to cause foaming of a liquid,’) A frothy, foaming mass or substance

    Examples

    Luke 9:39 and a spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams, and it throws him into a convulsion with foaming at the mouth; and only with difficulty does it leave him, mauling him as it leaves.

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Foam14.27
Used of the foam produced during a convulsive seizure, as of the boy thrown into convulsions with foaming at the mouth in Luke 9:39.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀφρόςaphrós · G876ἀφρίζω aphrízō · G875 · to foam up, to foam at the mouth · 2×ἐπαφρίζω epaphrízō · G1890 · to cause to foam up · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀφροῦ, ὁ, foam: Lk 9:39. (Homer, Iliad 20, 168; (others).)
ἀφροῦ, ὁ, foam: Lk 9:39. (Homer, Iliad 20, 168; (others).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Events Involving Liquids and Dry Masses1 occurrence

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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