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Strong's G853 ἀφανίζω (aphanizo)

Aphanizo means “render unapparent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H853 — eth in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G853
Language Greek
Linked Usages 89
Books 33

Strong's G853 Quick Answer

Strong's G853 ἀφανίζω (aphanizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aphanizo (af-an-id'-zo) v. 1. to render unapparent 2. (actively) consume (becloud) It has 89 linked Bible usages across 33 books. Visible English usage signals include corrupt and disfigure. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
aphanizo (af-an-id'-zo) v. 1. to render unapparent 2. (actively) consume (becloud)
Usage
89 linked usages
Books
33 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
corrupt and disfigure

Meaning and Definition

aphanizo (af-an-id'-zo) v. 1. to render unapparent 2. (actively) consume (becloud) 3. (passively) disappear (be destroyed) [from G852] KJV: corrupt, disfigure, perish, vanish away Root(s): G852

Original Word
ἀφανίζω
Transliteration
aphanizo
Derivation
Root: ἀφανής R1: 852
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G853. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to destroy

Usage: ἀφανίζω (ἀφανής), [in LXX for שָׁמֵם ni., שָׁמַד hi., etc. ;] __1. to make unseen, hide from sight (Xen., a1.). __2. Later (MM, see word) __(a) to destroy: Mat.6:19-20; __(b) to disfigure: Mat.6:16. Pass., to vanish: Jas.4:14; to perish: Act.13:41(LXX).† (AS)

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How Strong's G853 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aphanizo, 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.

corrupt Matthew 6:19 disfigure Matthew 6:16

How Strong's G853 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 73 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G853 (ἀφανίζω) appears 86 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G853 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G853 in the New Testament

5 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 6:16 KJV

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Matthew 6:19 KJV

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Matthew 6:20 KJV

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Strong's G853 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

73 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 8:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And Moses said to Pharaoh, Appoint me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to cause the frogs to disappear from thee, and from thy people, and from your houses, only in the river shall they be left behind.

Exodus 12:15 Septuagint / Brenton

Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and from the first day ye shall utterly remove leaven from your houses: whoever shall eat leaven, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.

Exodus 21:29 Septuagint / Brenton

But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.

Strong's G853 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 6:32 Septuagint / Brenton

And he commanded that whosoever should transgress, yea, or make light of anything herein written, out of his own house should a tree be taken, and he thereon be hanged, and all his goods seized for the king.

1 Maccabees 9:73 Septuagint / Brenton

Thus the sword ceased from Israel: but Jonathan dwelt at Michmash, and began to govern the people; and he destroyed the ungodly men out of Israel.

3 Maccabees 4:14 Septuagint / Brenton

The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the aforementioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.

Strong's G853 in 1 Enoch

3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 8:2 Septuagint / Brenton

colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they

1 Enoch 10:14 Septuagint / Brenton

to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all

1 Enoch 22:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.'

Usage Excerpts

First 89 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G853.

Exodus 8:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said to Pharaoh, Appoint me a time when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to cause the frogs to disappear from thee, and from thy people, and from your houses, only in the river shall they be left behind.
Exodus 12:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and from the first day ye shall utterly remove leaven from your houses: whoever shall eat leaven, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.
Exodus 21:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
Exodus 21:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.
Deuteronomy 7:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt not make a covenant with them, neither shall ye pity them:
Deuteronomy 13:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make thee err from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in: so shalt thou abolish the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 19:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed the nations, which God gives thee, even the land, and ye shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,
Judges 21:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.
1 Kingdoms 24:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, that thou wilt not blot out my name from the house of my father.
2 Kingdoms 21:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, What say ye? speak, and I will do it for you. And they said to the king, The man who would have made an end of us, and persecuted us, who plotted against us to destroy us, let us utterly destroy him, so that he shall have no standing in all the coasts of Israel.
2 Kingdoms 22:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will pursue my enemies, and will utterly destroy them; And I will not turn again till I have consumed them.
4 Kingdoms 10:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he entered into Samaria, and smote all that were left of Ahab in Samaria, until he had utterly destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Elijah.
4 Kingdoms 10:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So Jehu abolished Baal out of Israel.
4 Kingdoms 21:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they hearkened not; and Manasseh led them astray to do evil in the sight of the Lord, beyond the nations whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.
Ezra 6:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.
Esther 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.
Esther 9:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
showing how Haman the son of Hammedatha the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly;
Job 4:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall perish by the command of the Lord, And shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.
Job 22:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, And the fire shall devour what is left of their property.
Job 39:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.
Psalms 93:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: The Lord our God shall utterly destroy them.
Psalms 145:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He will relieve the orphan and widow: But will utterly remove the way of sinners.
Proverbs 10:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the righteous turns aside and escapes forever.
Proverbs 12:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When the ungodly is overthrown, he vanishes away; But the houses of the just remain.
Proverbs 14:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The houses of ungodly men shall be utterly destroyed; But the tabernacles of them that walk uprightly shall stand.
Proverbs 30:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse you, and you be utterly destroyed.
Song of Solomon 2:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: For our vines put forth tender grapes.
Jeremiah 4:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I saw, and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burned with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.
Jeremiah 12:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it? the beasts and birds are utterly destroyed; because the people said, God shall not see our ways.
Jeremiah 12:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
it is made a complete ruin: for my sake the whole land has been utterly ruined, because there is none that lays the matter to heart.
Jeremiah 27:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
on the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command thee.
Jeremiah 27:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting it: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
Jeremiah 28:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.
Jeremiah 29:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines: and I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon, and all the rest of their allies: for the Lord will destroy the remaining inhabitants of the islands.
Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The ways of Zion mourn, Because there are none that come to the feast: All her gates are ruined: Her priests groan, Her virgins are led captive, And she is in bitterness in herself.
Lamentations 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, He has brought it into my bones: He has spread a net for my feet, He has turned me back: He has made me desolate And mourning all the day.
Lamentations 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eye has poured out water, Because he that should comfort me, That should restore my soul, Has been removed far from me: My sons have been destroyed, Because the enemy has prevailed.
Lamentations 3:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He pursued me after I departed, And brought me to a stand: He has utterly ruined me.
Lamentations 4:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They that feed on dainties Are desolate in the streets: They that used to be nursed in scarlet Have clothed themselves with dung.
Lamentations 5:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Over the mountain of Zion, because it is made desolate, Foxes have walked therein.
Ezekiel 4:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.
Ezekiel 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.
Ezekiel 12:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt say to the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem on the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains: for all that dwell in it are ungodly.
Ezekiel 14:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out my hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Ezekiel 19:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.
Ezekiel 20:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will defile them by their own decrees, when I pass through upon everyone that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.
Ezekiel 25:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou shalt say to the children of Ammon, Hear ye the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord; Forasmuch as ye have rejoiced against my sanctuary, because it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, because it was laid waste; and against the house of Judah, because they went into captivity;
Ezekiel 30:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day shall messengers go forth hastening to destroy Ethiopia utterly, and there shall be tumult among them in the day of Egypt: for, behold, it comes.
Ezekiel 34:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will make with David a covenant of peace, and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.
Ezekiel 36:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;
Ezekiel 36:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder:
Ezekiel 36:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the desolate land shall be cultivated, whereas it was desolate in the eyes of everyone that passed by.
Ezekiel 36:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall say, That desolate land is become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are inhabited.
Ezekiel 36:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the nations, as many as shall have been left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built the ruined cities and planted the waste lands: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.
Daniel 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the judgment has sat, and they shall remove his dominion to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly.
Daniel 11:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual sacrifice, and make the abomination desolate.
Daniel 11:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But rumors and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many.
Hosea 2:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.
Hosea 5:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nought, and then shall they seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me early, saying,
Hosea 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.
Hosea 14:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women with child ripped up.
Joel 1:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the winepresses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel 1:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.
Joel 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will chase away from you the northern adversary, and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will sink his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his ill savor shall come up, and his stink shall come up, because he has wrought great things.
Amos 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Amos 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and shall inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and shall drink the wine from them; and they shall form gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Micah 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will cut off the groves out of the midst of thee, and I will abolish thy cities.
Micah 6:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore will I begin to smite thee; I will destroy thee in thy sins.
Micah 6:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt press the olive, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and shalt make wine, but ye shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.
Habakkuk 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, ye despisers, and look, and wonder marvelously, and vanish: for I work a work in your days, which ye will in nowise believe, though a man declare it to you.
Zephaniah 2:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate forever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
Zephaniah 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have brought down the proud with destruction; their corners are destroyed: I will make their ways completely waste, so that none shall go through: their cities are come to an end, by reason of no man living or dwelling in them.
Zechariah 7:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will cast them out among all the nations, whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly destitute of any going through or returning: yea they have made the choice land a desolation.
Matthew 6:16 New Testament, KJV
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Matthew 6:19 New Testament, KJV
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Matthew 6:20 New Testament, KJV
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Acts 13:41 New Testament, KJV
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
James 4:14 New Testament, KJV
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
1 Esdras 6:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he commanded that whosoever should transgress, yea, or make light of anything herein written, out of his own house should a tree be taken, and he thereon be hanged, and all his goods seized for the king.
1 Maccabees 9:73 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus the sword ceased from Israel: but Jonathan dwelt at Michmash, and began to govern the people; and he destroyed the ungodly men out of Israel.
3 Maccabees 4:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the aforementioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.
3 Maccabees 5:40 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O king, how long dost thou make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that thou hast ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, thou changest thy mind, and recallest thy instructions.
Wisdom of Solomon 3:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, And the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.
Wisdom of Sirach 21:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: And the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.
Wisdom of Sirach 45:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
God give you wisdom in your heart To judge his people in righteousness, That their good things be not abolished, And that their glory may endure forever.
Baruch 3:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
they are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their stead.
1 Enoch 8:2 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they
1 Enoch 10:14 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all
1 Enoch 22:7 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.'

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G853, grouped by book.

Exodus 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 14 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 3 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G853 FAQ

What does aphanizo (ἀφανίζω) mean?

Aphanizo (Strong's G853) is a Greek word most simply glossed "render unapparent". aphanizo (af-an-id'-zo) v. 1. to render unapparent 2. (actively) consume (becloud)

How many times is aphanizo (ἀφανίζω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 89 linked usages for Strong's G853 across 33 books.

Where can I study aphanizo (ἀφανίζω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G853 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate aphanizo (ἀφανίζω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as corrupt and disfigure. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G853 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 73 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G853, with linked reader references where each row is available.