Greek adjective · G880
ἄφωνος
aphonosaf'-o-nos
mute
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: áphōnos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G880is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G880
voiceless, i.e. mute (by nature or choice); figuratively, unmeaning
The King James renders it: dumb, without signification.
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
aphonos is rendered "mute". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 8:32The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
Acts 8:32ἄφωνος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- mute2
- silent1
- without meaning1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ἄφωνον2
- ἄφωνα1
- ἄφωνος1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular2A-NSN
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
Acts
one use
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- ἄφωνοςaphonosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: silent
1 Corinthians
two uses
You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
- ἄφωναaphonaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: mute
Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.
- ἄφωνονaphononadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: without meaning
2 Peter
one use
But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
- ἄφωνονaphononadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: mute
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.