ἈΦΟΡΙΑ, ἀφορια
APHORIA, aphoria
Sounds Like: ah-for-EE-ah
Translations: unfruitfulness, barrenness, a barrenness, famine, scarcity
From the root: ἈΦΟΡΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the state of being unfruitful or barren, often in the context of land or crops. It can also denote a scarcity or famine, indicating a lack of produce or resources. It is used to describe conditions where there is no yield or growth.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0889 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 4:93
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Haggai — 2:17
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΦΟΡΙΑ.
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.
- ἈΦΟΡΙΑΣ — of unfruitfulness, of barrenness, of sterility, of lack of produce
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