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ἈΦΟΡΩΝΤΟΣ, ἀφορωντος

APHORŌNTOS, aphorōntos

Sounds Like: ah-foh-RON-tos

Translations: of looking away, of looking intently, of fixing one's eyes upon, of turning one's gaze from, of considering

From the root: ἈΦΟΡΆΩ

Part of Speech: Participle

Explanation: This word is a present active participle derived from the verb ἀφοράω, meaning 'to look away from' or 'to fix one's eyes upon'. It describes an action of focusing one's attention or gaze on something, often implying a turning away from other things. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing the subject of the sentence while performing the action of looking.

Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine or Neuter

Strong’s number: G0872 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΦΟΡΆΩ.

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.

  • ἈΦΕΩΡΩΝ — were looking away from, were fixing their eyes on, were beholding, were gazing intently at
  • ἈΦΟΡΩΜΕΝ — looking away from, fixing one's eyes on, looking intently at, we look away from, we fix our eyes on
  • ἈΦΟΡΩΝ — looking away from, looking intently at, fixing one's eyes on, focusing on
  • ἈΦΟΡΩΝΤΩΝ — looking away, looking intently, fixing one's gaze, turning one's eyes, considering, regarding
  • ἈΦΟΡΩΣΑΝ — looking away, looking intently, fixing one's gaze, the one looking away
  • ἈΦΟΡΩΣΙΝ — they look away from, they look intently at, they fix their eyes on, they turn their eyes away from

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