Lexicon achlus: a mist Original Word: ἀχλύς, ύος, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: achlus Phonetic Spelling: (akh-looce') Short Definition: a mist, dimness Definition: a mist, dimness, darkening. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitiona mist NASB Translationmist (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 887: ἀχλύςἀχλύς, ἀχλυος, ἡ, a mist, dimness (Latin caligo), especially over the eyes (a poetic word, often in Homer; then in Hesiod, Aeschylus; in prose writings from ( Aristotle, meteor. 2, 8, p. 367{b}, 17 etc. and) Polybius 34, 11, 15 on; (of a cataract, Dioscor. Cf. Trench, § c.)): Acts 13:11. ( Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 3 τάς τῶν πολεμίων ὄψεις ἀμαυρωσαι τόν Θεόν παρεκάλει ἀχλυν αὐταῖς ἐπιβαλοντα. Metaphorically, of the mind, Clement of Rome, 2 Cor. 1, 6 [ET] ἀχλυος γέμειν.)
Strong's mist. Of uncertain derivation; dimness of sight, i.e. (probably) a cataract -- mist. |
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