ἈΦΟΡΜΗΣ, ἀφορμης
APHORMĒS, aphormēs
Sounds Like: ah-for-MEES
Translations: of occasion, of opportunity, of a starting point, of a pretext, of an occasion, of an opportunity, of a starting point, of a pretext
From the root: ἈΦΟΡΜΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a starting point, an occasion, an opportunity, or a pretext. It is often used to describe the basis or cause for an action or event. For example, it might be used in a sentence like 'they sought an occasion to accuse him' or 'this provided the starting point for their journey.'
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0874 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 10:238
- Book 3 — 1:11
- Book 10 — 11:256
- Book 13 — 16:411
- Book 15 — 7:221
- Book 18 — 9:338
- Book 19 — 6:309
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 67:375
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 3 Maccabees — 3:2
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
- ἈΦΟΡΜΑΣ — occasions, opportunities, pretexts, starting points, bases, advantages
- 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
- ἈΦΟΡΜΩΝ — (of) occasion, (of) opportunity, (of) starting point, (of) cause, (of) pretext
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