ἄφωνος
áphōnos · G880 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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dumb, mute, unable to speak, incapable of talking
Pertaining to not being able to speak or talk
ExamplesActs 8:32 Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this: “HE WAS LED LIKE A SHEEP TO SLAUGHTER; AND LIKE A LAMB THAT IS SILENT BEFORE ITS SHEARER, SO HE DOES NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH.
1 Corinthians 12:2 You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.
2 Peter 2:16 but he received a rebuke for his own offense, for a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the insanity of the prophet.
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without meaning, meaningless
Pertaining to being without meaning
Examples1 Corinthians 14:10 There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and none is incapable of meaning.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀμνόςlamb 1
- οὐδείςno one 1
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
- κωφός kōphós · G2974 · dumb, mute, unable to speak
- Both terms denote muteness or inability to speak. The target emphasizes voicelessness or the absence of meaningful sound, including a figurative sense of 'meaningless,' while κωφός denotes sensory or vocal impairment as a physical disability (deafness or muteness). This is a real difference in perspective on the same underlying phenomenon of muteness rather than a difference in referent.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dumb, mute, unable to speak, incapable of talking33.106
- Used of being unable to speak, as of the lamb silent before its shearer in Acts 8:32 and the mute idols of paganism in 1 Corinthians 12:2.
- Without meaning, meaningless33.135
- Used of speech lacking intelligible content, as of a language that is not without meaning in 1 Corinthians 14:10.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἁφῶν (φωνή), voiceless, dumb; without the faculty of speech; used of idols, 1 Cor 12:2…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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