ἈΠΟΡΩΝ, ἀπορων
APORŌN, aporōn
Sounds Like: ah-po-RON
Translations: poor, needy, destitute, without resources, at a loss, perplexed, of the poor, of the needy
From the root: ἈΠΟΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone who is without resources, in need, or at a loss. It can refer to material poverty, meaning someone is poor or destitute, or to a state of being perplexed or without a way forward. It is a compound word, formed from the negative prefix ἀ- (a-, 'not') and πόρος (poros, 'a way, passage, resource').
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine or Feminine or Neuter
Strong’s number: G639 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Sirach — 10:27
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
- ἈΠΟΡΟΣ — without resources, without means, at a loss, perplexed, difficult, impassable, a difficult thing
- ἈΠΟΡΟΥΣ — poor, destitute, without resources, in want, helpless, perplexed
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