Lexicon aphónos: without voice, i.e. speechless Original Word: ἄφωνος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: aphónos Phonetic Spelling: (af'-o-nos) Short Definition: soundless, voiceless, speechless, dumb Definition: soundless, voiceless, speechless, dumb. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and phónéDefinitionwithout voice, i.e. speechless NASB Translationmute (2), silent (1), without meaning (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 880: ἄφωνοςἄφωνος, ἁφῶν ( φωνή), voiceless, dumb; without the faculty of speech; used of idols, 1 Corinthians 12:2 (cf. Psalm 115:5 (); Habakkuk 2:18); of beasts, 2 Peter 2:16. 1 Corinthians 14:10 τοσαῦτα γένη φωνῶν καί οὐδέν αὐτῶν (L T Tr WH omit αὐτῶν) ἄφωνον, i. e. there is no language destitute of the power of language (R. V. text no kind (of voice) is without signification) (cf. the phrases βίος ἀβίωτος a life unworthy of the name of life, χάρις ἄχαρις). used of one that is patiently silent or dumb: ἀμνός, Acts 8:32 from Isaiah 53:7. (In Greek writings from (Theog.), Pindar, Aeschylus down.)
Strong's speechless, mute, silent From a (as a negative particle) and phone; voiceless, i.e. Mute (by nature or choice); figuratively, unmeaning -- dumb, without signification. see GREEK a see GREEK phone |
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