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noun · feminine

aporias

Greekἀπορία (aporia)

Strong’sG640

perplexity, anxiety

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

Translated as

perplexity

What it means

ἀπορία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀπορέω), [in LXX for בֶּהָלָה, etc.;]

perplexity: Lk 21:25 (MM, s.v.; on the construction, v. Field, Notes, 74 f.).†

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

Strong’s G640 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidap-or-ee'-a

a (state of) quandary

Fromfrom the same as G639;

King Jamesperplexity.

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 nominativeaporiasaporiais
object accusativeaporianaporiain
direct address vocativeaporiaraporiair
of, belonging to genitiveaporiauaporiaiu
to, for dativeaporiaἀπορίᾳaporiai

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
aporistem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

aporia 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

aporia“perplexity”to, fordative singular

Luke 21:25“perplexity”Kai eli sēmeim en hēlio kai selēna kai astrei, kai epi tau gēau sunochas ethneiu en aporia ēcheu thalassau kai salou,There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.