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Koine Greek wordlink #152222

SR GNT 2Pet 2:16 ἄφωνον (afōnon) ‘for his own lawlessness a donkey silent in of a human a voice’ Strongs=8800 Lemma=afōnos
Word role=adjective case=nominative gender=neuter number=singular

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Only use of identical word form ἄφωνον (A-NNS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἄφωνον’ (A-NNS) is always and only glossed as ‘silent’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘afōnos’ have 2 different glosses: ‘silent’, ‘silent is’.

Greek words (3) other than ἄφωνον (A-NNS) with a gloss related to ‘silent’

ACTs 8:32 ἄφωνος (afōnos) S-NMS ‘the one having shaved him silent thus not he is opening_up’ SR GNT Acts 8:32 word 26

1COR 12:2 ἄφωνα (afōna) A-ANP ‘you_all were to idols silent as would you_all were_being led’ SR GNT 1Cor 12:2 word 10

1COR 14:10 ἄφωνον (afōnon) S-NNS ‘the world and not_one kind silent is’ SR GNT 1Cor 14:10 word 13

Key: A=adjective S=substantive adjective ANP=accusative,neuter,plural NMS=nominative,masculine,singular NNS=nominative,neuter,singular