ἈΠΟΡΟΣ, ἀπορος
APOROS, aporos
Sounds Like: AH-po-ros
Translations: without resources, without means, at a loss, perplexed, difficult, impassable, a difficult thing
From the root: ἈΠΟΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone that is without resources, means, or a way forward. It can refer to a person who is at a loss, perplexed, or in despair, or to a situation that is difficult, impassable, or without a solution. It is a compound word formed from the negative prefix ἀ- (a-, 'not') and πόρος (poros, 'a way, passage, resource').
Inflection: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter; Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative; Singular or Plural
Strong’s number: G635 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 6:49
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΟΡΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΠΟΡΑ — without resources, without means, at a loss, perplexed, a perplexity, a difficulty
- ἈΠΟΡΟΙ — without resources, destitute, helpless, in difficulty, impassable, difficult, perplexed
- ἈΠΟΡΟΝ — impassable, without resource, without means, at a loss, difficult, impossible, a difficulty, an impossibility
- ἈΠΟΡΟΥΣ — poor, destitute, without resources, in want, helpless, perplexed
- ἈΠΟΡΩΝ — poor, needy, destitute, without resources, at a loss, perplexed, of the poor, of the needy
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