noun · feminine
achluas
Strong’sG887
a mist, dimness
stem achlu-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἀχλύς, -ύος, ἡ,
[in Aq.: Ez 12:7; Sm.: Jb 3:5*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G887 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidakh-looce'
dimness of sight, i.e. (probably) a cataract
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesmist.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(accusative ἀχλύαRefs 5th c.AD+ mist, Refs 8th c.BC+ of a mist over the eyes, as of one dying, κατὰ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν κέχυτ᾽ ἀ.Refs 8th c.BC+; as result of ulceration, ἀχλύεςRefs 5th c.BC+; or in emotion, Ἔρως πολλὴν κατ᾽ ἀχλὺν ὀμμάτων ἔχευενRefs 7th c.BC+; of drunkenness, πρὸς ὄμμ᾽ ἀ. ἀμβλωπὸς ἐφίζειRefs 5th c.BC+; of one whom a god deprives of the power of seeing and knowing others, κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν χέεν ἀχλύνRefs 8th c.BC+:— personified as Sorrow, πὰρ δ᾽ Ἀχλὺς εἱστήκει ἐπισμυγερή τε καὶ αἰνή, χλωρή, ἀϋσταλέηRefs 8th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, δνοφεράν τιν᾽ ἀχλὺν.. αὐδᾶταιRefs 4th c.BC+
3 ἀ. ὑγρή liquid emitted by cuttlefish, Refs 2nd c.AD+—Mostly poetry, but used by Refs 5th c.BC+: also in later Prose, Refs 2nd c.BC+. [ῡ in nominative and accusative singular, Refs 8th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | achluas1×ἀχλὺς | achluais |
| object accusative | achluan | achluain |
| direct address vocative | achluar | achluair |
| of, belonging to genitive | achluau | achluaiu |
| to, for dative | achlua | achluai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
achlua is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
achluas“mist”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 13:11… kairou. parachrēma de piptata epi auton achluas kai skotem, kai periagarōntos zētate cheiragōgoin.… the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and …