ἈΦΟΡΩΝΤΕΣ, ἀφορωντες
APHORŌNTES, aphorōntes
Sounds Like: ah-foh-RON-tes
Translations: looking away, looking intently, fixing one's gaze, looking to, considering
From the root: ἈΦΟΡΑΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'looking away from' or 'fixing one's gaze upon' something or someone. It implies a focused attention, often to the exclusion of other things. It can be used to describe someone who is concentrating on a goal or a person, or who is turning their attention from one thing to another. It is a compound word formed from the preposition ἀπό (apo, 'away from') and the verb ὁράω (horao, 'to see').
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G0872 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 5:85
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 17:10
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Hebrews — 12:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΦΟΡΑΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΠΙΔΩΜΕΝ — let us look away, let us look, let us fix our eyes
- ἈΦΙΔΩ — to look away from, to look intently at, to consider, to fix one's eyes upon, to look to
- ἈΦΙΔΩΝ — looking away, looking intently, having looked away, having looked intently, fixing one's eyes upon
- ἈΦΟΡΑΝ — to look away from, to fix one's gaze on, to turn one's eyes to, to look intently at
- ἈΦΟΡΑΣΘΑΙ — to look away from, to look steadfastly at, to fix one's eyes upon
- ἈΦΟΡΑΩ — to look away from, to look intently at, to fix one's eyes on, to turn one's eyes away from, to look to
- ἈΦΟΡΩΕΝ — looking away, looking intently, fixing one's eyes, looking steadfastly
- ἈΦΟΡΩΝΤΑ — looking away from, looking intently at, fixing one's eyes on, having one's eyes fixed on
- ἈΦΟΡΩΝΤΑΣ — looking away, looking intently, looking steadfastly, looking to, looking unto
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