afantos

Strong’sG855

disappearing, invisible, hidden

stem afant-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

* ἄφαντος, -ον

(< φαίνομαι), poët. and late prose (MM, s.v.),

invisible, hidden: Lk 24:31.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G855 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidaf'-an-tos

non-manifested, i.e. invisible

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G5316;

King Jamesvanished out of sight.

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

ἄφαντ-ος, ον,
(φαίνομαι) made invisible, blotted out, ἀκήδεστοι καὶ ἄ.Refs 8th c.BC+; hidden, ἄ. ἕρμαRefs 5th c.BC+; ἁνὴρ ἄ. ἐκ.. στρατοῦ he has disappeared, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἄ. οἴχεσθαιRefs 5th c.BC+; ἴχνος πλατᾶν ἄ. disappearing, Refs 4th c.BC+; invisible, νύξRefs 4th c.BC+
2 in secret, ἄφαντα βρέμεινRefs 5th c.BC+
3 obscure, Refs; θεοῖς δῆλος θνητοῖσι δ᾽ ἄ. Epimenid.II.—poetical and late Prose, ἄ. γενέσθαιNT+4th 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.

invisible1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	afantos1×ἄφαντος	afantas	afantem	afantois	afantais	afanteim
object accusative	afanton	afantan		afantoin	afantain
direct address vocative	afantor	afantar		afantoir	afantair
of, belonging to genitive	afantou	afantau	afanteu	afantoiu	afantaiu	afanteiu
to, for dative	afanto	afanta	afante	afantoi	afantai	afantei

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

afantstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

afant 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

afantos“invisible”subjectnominative singular1×

Luke 24:31“invisible”… ofthalmois kai epignōskala auton; kai autos afantos geneta apo autoiu.Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus — and He disappeared from their sight.