ΚΩΦΟΙ, κωφοι
KŌPHOI, kōphoi
Sounds Like: KOH-foy
Translations: deaf, mute, dumb, the deaf, the mute
From the root: ΚΩΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word describes someone who is unable to hear, or by extension, unable to speak (mute or dumb). It can be used as an adjective to describe a person or group, or it can be substantivized to refer to 'the deaf' or 'the mute' as a group of people. It can also be used metaphorically to describe someone who is unresponsive or unwilling to listen.
Inflection: Nominative, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2974 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:59
Codex Sinaiticus
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΩΦΟΣ.
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.
- ΚΩΦʼ — deaf, dumb, mute, blind, dull, blunt
- ΚΩΦΑ — deaf, dumb, mute, dull, blind, a deaf person, a dumb person
- ΚΩΦΗ — deaf, mute, dumb, blind, dull, insensible, a deaf, a mute, a dumb
- ΚΩΦΗΝ — deaf, mute, dumb, dull, blind, a deaf person, a mute person
- ΚΩΦΗΣ — (of) deaf, (of) dumb, (of) mute, (of) dull, (of) insensible
- ΚΩΦΟΙΣ — (to) the deaf, (to) the dumb, (to) the mute, (to) the dull, (to) the blind
- ΚΩΦΟΝ — deaf, mute, dumb, blind, a deaf person, a mute person, a blind person
- ΚΩΦΟΣ — deaf, dumb, mute, blind, dull, a deaf person, a mute person
- ΚΩΦΟΥΣ — deaf, mute, dumb, dull, blind
- ΚΩΦΩ — deaf, dumb, mute, dull, blind
- ΚΩΦΩΝ — of deaf (people), of the deaf
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