Lexicon auchmeros: dingy, dusky, obscure, dark, funereal Original Word: αὐχμηρός, ά, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: auchmeros Phonetic Spelling: (owkh-may-ros') Short Definition: dingy, dusky, obscure, dark, funereal Definition: (poetical, lit: dry and parched; then: squalid and rough), dingy, murky, obscure, dark, funereal. HELPS word-Studies 850 auxmērós – properly, dry ("dried out") from strong heat, producing dust (parched dirt); (figuratively) murky, filled with extraneous filth (suspended elements) which impede vision; "squalid . . . 'dingy, dusky, obscure, dark, funereal' " (Souter); dirty, miserable. Thayer's STRONGS NT 850: αὐχμηρόςαὐχμηρός, ἀυχμηρα, ἀυχμηρον ( αὐχμέω to be squalid), squalid, dirty ( Xenophon, Plato, and following), and since dirty things are destitute of brightness, dark: 2 Peter 1:19, Aristotle, de color. 3 τό λαμπρόν ἤ στιλβον ... ἤ τοὐναντίον ἀυχμηρον καί ἀλαμπες. ( Hesychius, Suidas, Pollux).
Strong's dark, gloomy From auchmos (probably from a base akin to that of aer) (dust, as dried by wind); properly, dirty, i.e. (by implication) obscure -- dark. see GREEK aer |
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