ἈΦΕΩΡΑ, ἀφεωρα
APHEŌRA, apheōra
Sounds Like: ah-feh-OH-rah
Translations: was looking, was gazing, was fixing one's eyes on, was looking away from
From the root: ΑΦΟΡΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition ἀπό (apo, meaning 'from' or 'away from') and the verb ὁράω (horao, meaning 'to see' or 'to look'). In its imperfect tense, it describes an ongoing or repeated action in the past. It can mean to look away from something, or, more commonly in Koine Greek, to fix one's eyes on something, to gaze intently, or to look steadfastly at a person or object, often with a sense of turning one's attention fully towards it.
Inflection: Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G872 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
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, ΑΦΟΡΑΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΙΔΟΝΤΑΣ — looking away, fixing one's eyes upon, considering, regarding
- ἈΦΟΡΆΩ — to look away from, to look intently at, to fix one's eyes on, to turn one's eyes away from
- ἈΦΟΡἈΩ — to look away, to look intently, to fix one's eyes, to turn one's eyes away, to turn one's gaze
- ἈΦΟΡΩΣΗΣ — of looking away from, of fixing one's eyes on, of considering, of directing one's attention to
- ΑΠΙΔΩΜΕΝ — let us look away, let us look intently, let us fix our eyes
- ΑΦΕΩΡΑΚΑΙ — have looked away, have fixed one's gaze, have seen, have considered
- ΑΦΙΔΩ — to look away from, to look intently at, to fix one's eyes on, to consider, to observe, to behold
- ΑΦΙΔΩΝ — looking away from, fixing one's eyes upon, looking intently at, considering, regarding
- ΑΦΟΡΑΝ — looking away, looking intently, fixing one's gaze, turning one's gaze, looking away from, looking to
- ΑΦΟΡΑΩ — to look away from, to look intently at, to fix one's eyes on, to turn one's eyes away from
- ΑΦΟΡΩΝΤΕΣ — looking away from, looking intently at, fixing one's eyes on
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