noun · feminine
aporias
Strong’sG640
perplexity, anxiety
stem apori-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
ἀπορία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἀπορέω), [in LXX for בֶּהָלָה, etc.;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (ἄπορος) being ἄπορος: hence,
I of places, difficulty of passing, Refs 5th c.BC+
II of things, difficulty, straits, in singular and plural, ἐς ἀπορίην πολλὴν ἀπιγμένος, ἀπειλημένος, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν ἀπορίῃ or ἐν ἀποίῃσι ἔχεσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπορια τελέθει, with infinitive, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. τοῦ μὴ ἡσυχάζειν impossibility of keeping quiet, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 not providing a thing, Refs
III of persons, difficulty of dealing with or getting at, τῶν ΣκυθέωνRefs 5th c.BC+
III.2 being at a loss, embarrassment, perplexity, ἀ. τοῦ δυστυχεῖνRefs 5th c.BC+; distress, discomfort, in illness, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 ἀ. τινός lack of a person or thing, σοφῶν ἀνδρῶνRefs 5th c.BC+; τροφῆς, χρημάτων, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπώλλυντο.. ἀπορίᾳ τοῦ θεραπεύοντος for want of one to attend to them, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. πλοίων shortage of ships, Refs: absolutely, need, poverty, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to εὐπορία, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV in Dialectic, question for discussion, difficulty, puzzle, ἀπορίᾳ σχόμενοςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. ἣν ἀπορεῖςRefs 4th c.BC+; ἀ. λύειν, διαλύειν, Refs 1st 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aporias | aporiais |
| object accusative | aporian | aporiain |
| direct address vocative | aporiar | aporiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | aporiau | aporiaiu |
| to, for dative | aporia1×ἀπορίᾳ | aporiai |
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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
aporia“perplexity”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 21:25“perplexity”… epi tau gēau sunochas ethneiu en aporia ēcheu thalassau kai salou,… stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.