Word Summary
aphōnos: without voice, speechless
Original Word: ἄφωνοςTransliteration: aphōnos
Phonetic Spelling: (af'-o-nos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: without voice, speechless
Meaning: without voice, speechless
Strong's Concordance
speechless, mute, silent
From a (as a negative particle) and phone; voiceless, i.e. Mute (by nature or choice); figuratively, unmeaning -- dumb, without signification.
see GREEK a
see GREEK phone
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 880: ἄφωνοςἄφωνος,
ἁφῶν (
φωνή),
voiceless, dumb; without the faculty of speech; used of idols,
1 Corinthians 12:2 (cf.
Psalm 115:5 (); Habakkuk 2:18); of beasts, 2 Peter 2:16. 1 Corinthians 14:10 τοσαῦτα γένη φωνῶν καί οὐδέν αὐτῶν (L T Tr WH omit αὐτῶν) ἄφωνον, i. e. there is no language destitute of the power of language (R. V. text no kind (of voice) is without signification) (cf. the phrases βίος ἀβίωτος a life unworthy of the name of life, χάρις ἄχαρις). used of one that is patiently silent or dumb: ἀμνός, Acts 8:32 from Isaiah 53:7. (In Greek writings from (Theog.), Pindar, Aeschylus down.)