afobōs

Strong’sG870

fearlessly

stem afobō-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 booksnever 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.

ἀφόβως,

adv.

(< φόβος), [in LXX: Pr 1:33 (מִפַּחַד), Wi 17:4*;]

without fear: Lk 1:74, Phl 1:14, I Co 16:10, Ju 12.†

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

Strong’s G870 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidaf-ob'-oce

fearlessly

Fromadverb from a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and G5401;

King Jameswithout fear.

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

Included with: ἄφοβος, ον,
without fear, and so:
1 fearless, intrepid, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς ἐρημίαν, περὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος, Refs 1st c.AD+: with genitive, having no fear of, τῶν ἀρχόντωνRefs 1st c.AD+; τὸ ἄφοβον, ={ἀφοβία}, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -βωςRefs 5th c.BC+
2 causing no fear, free from fear, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 ἄ. θῆρες, in Refs 5th c.BC+, is an oxymoron, beasts which fear not men or which no one fears, tame beasts, cattle.

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.

without fear3×without cause to fear1×

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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

afobōs4×

Luke 1:74afobōs ek cheirau echthroiu ruirantoin latreuarō auto… hands, that we may serve Him without fear,

1 Corinthians 16:10“without cause to fear”Ean de erchateia Timotheos, blepavōr hina afobōs geneteia pros vin, tem gar ergem …If Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is doing the work of the …

Philippians 1:14… peitharēntoin toi desmoi mu perissoterōs tolmarō afobōs ton logon lalarō.… more greatly to speak the word without fear.

Jude 1:12“without fear”… en tai agapai vu spiladais suneuōchorōntois, afobōs heautoin poimanarōntois, nefelais anudrais hupo anemoiu …… reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless …