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noun · masculine

afros

Greekἀφρός (afros)

Strong’sG876

foam, froth

stem afr-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

foams at the mouth

What it means

* ἀφρός, -οῦ, ὁ,

foam: Lk 9:39 (MM, s.v.).†

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

Strong’s G876 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidaf-ros'

froth, i.e. slaver

Fromapparently a primary word;

King Jamesfoaming.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeafrosafrois
object accusativeafronafroin
direct address vocativeafrorafroir
of, belonging to genitiveafrouἀφροῦafroiu
to, for dativeafroafroi

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
afrstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

afro 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

afrou“foams at the mouth”of, belonging togenitive singular

Luke 9:39“foams at the mouth”kai idou pneumem lambatō auton, kai exaifnōs krazatō, kai sparassatō auton meta afrou kai mogōs apochōratō apo autou suntribarōtem auton;A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.