adverb
afnōs
Strong’sG869
suddenly
stem afnō-3 times in the New Testamentnever changes form
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.
ἄφνω,
adv.,[in LXX for פִּתְאֹם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G869 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidaf'-no
unawares, i.e. unexpectedly
Fromadverb from G852 (contraction);
King Jamessuddenly.
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
adverb unawares, of a sudden, NT+5th c.BC+:—also ἄφνως, Refs
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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
afnōs3×
Acts 2:2kai geneta afnōs ek tou ouranou ēchos hōsper ferorōntau …Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing …
Acts 16:26afnōs de seismos geneta megos hōste saleuira …Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations …
Acts 28:6… prosdokale auton mellarō pimprēorō ē katapiptarō afnōs nekron. epi pollem de autoiu prosdokarōntoiu …… expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a …