adjective
afōnos
Strong’sG880
soundless, voiceless, speechless, dumb
stem afōn-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
ἄφωνος, -ον
(φωνή), [in LXX: Is 53:7 (אלם ni.), Wi 4:19, II Mac 3:29*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G880 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(φωνή) voiceless, dumb, Refs 6th c.BC+; stronger than ἄναυδος (which see), NT+5th c.BC+; unable to speak, of a child, Refs 7th c.BC+ unable to utter it, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -νωςRefs: neuter plural as adverb, ἄφωνα σημανοῦσιν.. ὡς.. Refs 4th c.BC+
2 with a poor voice, τραγῳδόςRefs 2nd c.BC+
3 intestate, Refs
4 ἄφωνα (i.e. γράμματα, στοιχεῖα) consonants, ἄ. καὶ φωνοῦντα (perhaps ἄ. φωνήεντα) Refs 5th c.BC+: but especially of mutes, τὰ ἄφθογγα καὶ ἄ.Refs; opposed to ἡμίφωνα, Refs 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.
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 | afōnos1×ἄφωνος | afōnas | afōnem2×ἄφωνον | afōnois | afōnais | afōneim1×ἄφωνα |
| object accusative | afōnon | afōnan | afōnoin | afōnain | ||
| direct address vocative | afōnor | afōnar | afōnoir | afōnair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | afōnou | afōnau | afōneu | afōnoiu | afōnaiu | afōneiu |
| to, for dative | afōno | afōna | afōne | afōnoi | afōnai | afōnei |
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
afōn 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
afōnos“silent”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 8:32… hōs amnos enantion tou keirarantou auton afōnos, houtōs ouk anoigatō tem stomem autou.… a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His …
afōnem“speechless”subject or objectdirect singular2×
1 Corinthians 14:10… fōnaiu alō en kosmo, kai oudenem afōnem;… world, yet none of them is without meaning.
2 Peter 2:16“speechless”elenxian de echata idiau paranomiau; hupozugiem afōnem en anthrōpou fōna fthengerantem kōluata tan …But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s …
afōneim“mute”subject or objectdirect plural1×
1 Corinthians 12:2… ethneim ave pros teim eidōleim teim afōneim hōs an agove apagorōntois.… were influenced and led astray to mute idols.