ἈΦΟΡΜΑΣ, ἀφορμας
APHORMAS, aphormas
Sounds Like: ah-for-MAS
Translations: occasions, opportunities, pretexts, starting points, bases, advantages
From the root: ἈΦΟΡΜΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a compound noun, formed from the preposition ἀπό (apo), meaning 'from' or 'away from', and ὁρμή (hormē), meaning 'a start' or 'a rush'. It refers to a starting point, an occasion, an opportunity, or a pretext. It can be used to describe the basis or foundation for an action, or an advantage that one might seize.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Feminine
Strong’s number: G874 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 8:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 6:224
- Book 13 — 5:185, 16:427, 16:429
- Book 15 — 7:257, 10:353
- Book 16 — 3:71
- Book 18 — 9:333
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 93:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΦΟΡΜΗ.
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.
- ἈΦΟΡΜΑΙ — occasions, opportunities, pretexts, starting points, advantages
- ἈΦΟΡΜΑΙΣ — to a starting point, to an occasion, to an opportunity, to a pretext, to a cause, to a resource
- ἈΦΟΡΜΗ — occasion, opportunity, a starting point, a base of operations, a pretext, an excuse, a cause, a reason
- ἈΦΟΡΜΗΝ — occasion, an occasion, opportunity, an opportunity, pretext, a pretext, starting point, a starting point
- ἈΦΟΡΜΗΣ — of occasion, of opportunity, of a starting point, of a pretext, of an occasion, of an opportunity, of a starting point, of a pretext
- ἈΦΟΡΜΩΝ — (of) occasion, (of) opportunity, (of) starting point, (of) cause, (of) pretext
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