Lexical Summary aphantos: invisible Original Word: ἄφαντοςTransliteration: aphantos Phonetic Spelling: (af'-an-tos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: invisible Meaning: invisible Strong's Concordance vanished out of sight. From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of phaino; non-manifested, i.e. Invisible -- vanished out of sight. see GREEK a see GREEK phaino Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 855: ἄφαντοςἄφαντος, ἀφαντον (from φαίνομαι), taken out of sight, made invisible: ἄφαντος ἐγένετο ἀπ' αὐτῶν, he departed from them suddenly and in a way unseen, he vanished, Luke 24:31. (In poets from Homer down; later in prose writings also; Diodorus 4, 65 ἐμπεσών εἰς τό χάσμα ... ἄφαντος ἐγένετο, Plutarch, orac. def. c. 1. Sometimes angels, withdrawing suddenly from human view, are said ἀφανεῖς γίνεσθαι: 2 Macc. 3:34; Acta Thom. §§ 27 and 43.) |
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