2001 Translation

TYPHLOI, typhloi

Sounds Like: TY-floy

Translations: blind, the blind

From the root: ΤΥΦΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes someone who is unable to see. It is used to refer to individuals who are visually impaired or, metaphorically, to those who lack spiritual or intellectual understanding. In the provided examples, it refers to people who are literally blind.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G5185 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:59, 11:20

Codex Sinaiticus

• Isaiah — 42:18, 43:8
• Zephaniah — 1:17
• Matthew — 9:27, 9:28, 11:5, 15:14, 20:30, 21:14, 23:16, 23:17, 23:19, 23:24
• Luke — 7:22
• John — 9:39, 9:40, 9:41

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 2:23
• Book Two — 2:23

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 48:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 12:2, 17:4, 112:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Samuel — 5:6, 5:8
• Isaiah — 42:18, 43:8, 59:10
• Zephaniah — 1:17

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 9:27, 9:28, 11:5, 15:14, 20:30, 21:14, 23:16, 23:17, 23:19, 23:24
• Luke — 7:22
• John — 9:39, 9:40, 9:41

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΥΦΛΟΣ.

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.

• ΤΥΦΛΑ — blind, blind things, things that are blind
• ΤΥΦΛΕ — blind one, O blind one
• ΤΥΦΛΗΝ — blind, a blind one
• ΤΥΦΛΟ — blind, a blind person, blind people
• ΤΥΦΛΟΙΣ — to the blind, for the blind, blind
• ΤΥΦΛΟΝ — blind, a blind person, a blind thing
• ΤΥΦΛΟΣ — blind, a blind person
• ΤΥΦΛΟΥ — blind, a blind person, the blind
• ΤΥΦΛΟΥΣ — blind, the blind
• ΤΥΦΛΩΝ — of blind people, of the blind, of the blind ones

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