Aporeo means “be perplexed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H639 — aph (“face”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G639 ἀπορέω (aporeo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aporeo (ap-or-eh'-o) v. 1. to have no way out, i.e. be at a loss (mentally) [from a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G4198] It has 22 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include stand. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
aporeo (ap-or-eh'-o) v. 1. to have no way out, i.e. be at a loss (mentally) [from a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G4198] KJV: (stand in) doubt, be perplexed Root(s): G1, G4198
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be perplexed
Usage: ἀπορέω, -ῶ (ἄπορος, ἀ- neg., πόρος, a way, resource), [in LXX for צָרַר, מוּךְ, etc. ;] to be at a loss, be perplexed: absol., Mrk.6:20 (ἐποίει, R, mg.); mid., be in doubt: absol., 2Co.4:8; with accusative, Act.25:20; before περί, Luk.24:4; ἐν, Gal.4:20; περὶ τίνος λέγει, Jhn.13:22.† SYN.: διαπορέω, διακρίνομαι, διστάζω, μετεωρίζομαι (see DCG, i, 491) (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aporeo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G639 (ἀπορέω) appears 18 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
10 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps.
And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction;
At this also my heart is troubled, And moved out of its place.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.
When Judas therefore saw that his host slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and much distressed, for that he had no time to gather them together.
And he told them of the battle that they had in Babylon with the Galatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to the business, with four thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great booty.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G639.
And Jacob was greatly terrified, and was perplexed; and he divided the people that was with him, and the cows, and the camels, and the sheep, into two camps.
And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction;
At this also my heart is troubled, And moved out of its place.
And he shall be as a tree planted by the brooks of waters, Which shall yield its fruit in its season, And its leaf shall not fall off; And whatsoever he shall do shall be prospered.
The heart of her husband trusts in her: Such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils.
Drink this first. Act quickly, O land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, and the rest inhabiting the seacoast, and the land beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.
the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed.
Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.
mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions’ whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.
Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.
When Judas therefore saw that his host slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and much distressed, for that he had no time to gather them together.
And he told them of the battle that they had in Babylon with the Galatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to the business, with four thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great booty.
around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails.
For by what things their enemies were punished, By the same they in their need were benefited.
For thy Almighty hand, That made the world of matter without form, Wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,
Better is he that laboreth, and aboundeth in all things, Than he that boasteth himself, and wanteth bread.
When a man hath done, then he beginneth; And when he leaveth off, then he shall be doubtful.
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Aporeo (Strong's G639) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be perplexed". aporeo (ap-or-eh'-o) v. 1. to have no way out, i.e. be at a loss (mentally) [from a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G4198]
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's G639 across 17 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G639 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as stand. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 10 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G639, with linked reader references where each row is available.