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Greek adjective · G5185

τυφλός

typhlostoof-los'

blind

50 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: typhlós

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5185is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G5185

opaque (as if smoky), i.e. (by analogy) blind (physically or mentally)

The King James renders it: blind.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

typhlos is rendered "blind". It stands 50 times in the Greek text, across eight books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 9:27As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Matthew 9:27τυφλοὶ

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seventeen of the word's fifty uses are in Matthew.

The other 19 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • blind38
  • a blind4
  • of blind3
  • to blind2
  • of the blind1
  • the blind1
  • You blind men1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

τυφλόωtyphlooto blindUses3

All 50, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • τυφλὸς13
  • τυφλοὶ8
  • τυφλοί6
  • τυφλὸν5
  • τυφλῶν4
  • τυφλοῦ3
  • τυφλοῖς2
  • τυφλός2
  • τυφλούς2
  • τυφλοὺς2
  • τυφλέ1
  • τυφλόν1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular15A-NSM
  • adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural10A-NPM
  • adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular6A-ASM
  • adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural4A-APM
  • adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural4A-GPM
  • adjective · vocative (address) · masculine plural4A-VPM
  • adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular3A-GSM
  • adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural2A-DPM
  • adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1A-DSM
  • adjective · vocative (address) · masculine singular1A-VSM

Matthew

seventeen uses
  • As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

    Matthew 9:27

    • τυφλοὶtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered.

    Matthew 9:28

    • τυφλοίtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

    Matthew 11:5

    • τυφλοὶtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Blind
  • Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed the man so that he could speak and see.

    Matthew 12:22

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

    Matthew 15:14

    • τυφλοίtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Blind
    • τυφλῶνtuphlonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of the blind
    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Blind
    • τυφλὸνtuphlonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • Large crowds came to Him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and laid them at His feet, and He healed them.

    Matthew 15:30

    • τυφλούςtuphlousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • The crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.

    Matthew 15:31

    • τυφλοὺςtuphlousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

    Matthew 20:30

    • τυφλοὶtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them.

    Matthew 21:14

    • τυφλοὶtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’

    Matthew 23:16

    • τυφλοὶtuphloiadjective · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

    Matthew 23:17

    • τυφλοίtuphloiadjective · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?

    Matthew 23:19

    • τυφλοίtuphloiadjective · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: You blind men
  • You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

    Matthew 23:24

    • τυφλοίtuphloiadjective · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

    Matthew 23:26

    • τυφλέtuphleadjective · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: blind

Mark

five uses
  • When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

    Mark 8:22

    • τυφλὸνtuphlonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a blind
  • So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He asked.

    Mark 8:23

    • τυφλοῦtuphlouadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.

    Mark 10:46

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called the blind man. “Take courage!” they said. “Get up! He is calling for you.”

    Mark 10:49

    • τυφλὸνtuphlonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • “What do you want Me to do for you?” Jesus asked. “Rabboni,” said the blind man, “let me see again.”

    Mark 10:51

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: the blind

Luke

eight uses
  • “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

    Luke 4:18

    • τυφλοῖςtuphloisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: to blind
  • Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

    Luke 6:39

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a blind
    • τυφλὸνtuphlonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a blind
  • At that very hour Jesus healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and He gave sight to many who were blind.

    Luke 7:21

    • τυφλοῖςtuphloisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: to blind
  • So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

    Luke 7:22

    • τυφλοὶtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Blind
  • But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,

    Luke 14:13

    • τυφλούςtuphlousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’

    Luke 14:21

    • τυφλοὺςtuphlousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.

    Luke 18:35

    • τυφλόςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a blind

John

sixteen uses
  • On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

    John 5:3

    • τυφλῶνtuphlonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,

    John 9:1

    • τυφλὸνtuphlonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

    John 9:2

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.

    John 9:13

    • τυφλόνtuphlonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

    John 9:17

    • τυφλῷtuphloadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • The Jews still did not believe that the man had been blind and had received his sight until they summoned his parents

    John 9:18

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”

    John 9:19

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.

    John 9:20

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

    John 9:24

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”

    John 9:25

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind
  • Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.

    John 9:32

    • τυφλοῦtuphlouadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of blind
  • Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

    John 9:39

    • τυφλοὶtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”

    John 9:40

    • τυφλοίtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • “If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

    John 9:41

    • τυφλοὶtuphloiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: blind
  • But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

    John 10:21

    • τυφλῶνtuphlonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of blind
  • But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”

    John 11:37

    • τυφλοῦtuphlouadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: blind

Acts

one use
  • Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

    Acts 13:11

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind

Romans

one use
  • if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

    Romans 2:19

    • τυφλῶνtuphlonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of blind

2 Peter

one use
  • But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

    2 Peter 1:9

    • τυφλόςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind

Revelation

one use
  • You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

    Revelation 3:17

    • τυφλὸςtuphlosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: blind

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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