ἈΦΑΝΙΣΜΟΝ, ἀφανισμον
APHANISMON, aphanismon
Sounds Like: ah-fah-nees-MON
Translations: destruction, ruin, annihilation, a destruction, a ruin, an annihilation
From the root: ἈΦΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act of making something disappear or become invisible, or more commonly, to its complete destruction, ruin, or annihilation. It describes a state of being utterly wiped out or brought to nothing. It is used to describe the complete undoing or devastation of something.
Inflection: Accusative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0859 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 12:4
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Kings — 9:7, 13:34
- 2 Kings — 22:19
- 2 Chronicles — 36:19
- Esther — 8:12
- Judith — 2:27, 4:1, 4:12
- 3 Maccabees — 5:20, 5:38
- Jeremiah — 9:11, 10:22, 12:11, 18:16, 19:8, 25:9, 25:11, 25:12, 26:19, 27:3, 27:13, 27:23, 28:26, 28:29, 28:37, 28:41
- Ezekiel — 6:14, 7:27, 12:20, 14:8, 14:15, 15:8
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 9:18
- Hosea — 5:9
- Micah — 1:7, 6:16, 7:13
- Joel — 1:7, 3:19
- Zephaniah — 1:13, 2:4, 2:13, 3:1
- Zechariah — 7:14
- Malachi — 1:3
- Enoch — 12:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΦΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΦΑΝΙΣΜΟΙ — destruction, ruin, disappearance, a destruction, a ruin, a disappearance
- ἈΦΑΝΙΣΜΩ — (by) destruction, (by) annihilation, (by) disappearance, (by) ruin
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