ἈΦΑΝΩΝ, ἀφανων
APHANŌN, aphanōn
Sounds Like: ah-fah-NOHN
Translations: of unseen, of hidden, of invisible, of obscure, of unknown
From the root: ΑΦΑΝΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is unseen, hidden, invisible, or obscure. It can refer to things that are not visible to the eye, or to things that are not well-known or prominent. In the provided context, it is used in the genitive plural, often meaning "of the unseen ones" or "of the obscure things/people."
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter
Strong’s number: G0852 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 12:303
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΦΑΝΗΣ.
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.
- ἈΦΑΝΕΙΣ — unseen, invisible, hidden, obscure, secret, unknown
- ἈΦΑΝΕΣ — unseen, invisible, hidden, secret, a secret thing
- ἈΦΑΝΕΣΤΑΤΑ — most unseen, most hidden, most obscure, very hidden, very obscure
- ἈΦΑΝΟΥΣ — (of) unseen, (of) invisible, (of) hidden, (of) obscure
- ΑΦΑΙΣ — unseen, invisible, hidden, secret
- ΑΦΑΝΗΣ — unseen, invisible, hidden, secret, unknown, obscure, a hidden thing
- ΤἈΦΑΝΟΥΣ — invisible, unseen, hidden, secret, unknown, of the unseen
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