Greek adverb · G869
ἄφνω
aphnoaf'-no
suddenly
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: áphnō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G869is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G869
unawares, i.e. unexpectedly
The King James renders it: suddenly.
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
aphno is rendered "suddenly". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 2:2Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
The first use
Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:2ἄφνω
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- suddenly3
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- ἄφνω3
The grammar of each form
- adverb3ADV
Acts
three uses
Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
- ἄφνωaphnoadverbtagged: suddenly
Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. At once all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.
- ἄφνωaphnoadverbtagged: Suddenly
The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
- ἄφνωaphnoadverbtagged: suddenly
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.