adjective
autofōros
Strong’sG1888
in the very act
stem autofōr-once in the New Testament1 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.
** αὐτόφωρος, -ον
(< αὐτός, φώρ, a thief), [in Sm.: Jb 34:11*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1888 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(φώρ) self-detected, ἀμπλακήματαRefs 5th c.BC+
II mostly in the phrase ἐπ᾽ αὐτοφώρῳ λαμβάνειν to catch in the act, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 in a more general sense, notoriously, manifestly, ἐπιβουλεύοντας φανῆναι ἐπ᾽ αὐ.Refs 5th 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.
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 | autofōros | autofōras | autofōrem | autofōrois | autofōrais | autofōreim |
| object accusative | autofōron | autofōran | autofōroin | autofōrain | ||
| direct address vocative | autofōror | autofōrar | autofōroir | autofōrair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | autofōrou | autofōrau | autofōreu | autofōroiu | autofōraiu | autofōreiu |
| to, for dative | autofōro1×αὐτοφόρῳ | autofōra | autofōre | autofōroi | autofōrai | autofōrei |
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
autofōr 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
autofōroto, fordative singular1×
John 8:4… Didaskalor, houtas tas gunaikas katalabita epi autofōro moicheuorōntasand said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.