Word Summary
achlys: a mist
Original Word: ἀχλύςTransliteration: achlys
Phonetic Spelling: (akh-looce')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a mist
Meaning: a mist
Strong's Concordance
mist.
Of uncertain derivation; dimness of sight, i.e. (probably) a cataract -- mist.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 887: ἀχλύςἀχλύς,
ἀχλυος,
ἡ,
a mist, dimness (Latin
caligo), especially over the eyes (a poetic word, often in
Homer; then in
Hesiod,
Aeschylus; in prose writings from (
Aristotle, meteor. 2, 8, p. 367{b}, 17 etc. and)
Polybius 34, 11, 15 on; (of a cataract,
Dioscor. Cf.
Trench, § c.)):
Acts 13:11. (
Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 3
τάς τῶν πολεμίων ὄψεις ἀμαυρωσαι τόν Θεόν παρεκάλει ἀχλυν αὐταῖς ἐπιβαλοντα. Metaphorically, of the mind,
Clement of Rome, 2 Cor. 1, 6 [ET]
ἀχλυος γέμειν.)