Aphonos means “dumb” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H880 — beerah in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G880 ἄφωνος (aphonos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aphonos (af'-o-nos) adj. 1. voiceless, i.e. mute (by nature or choice) 2. (figuratively) meaningless It has 7 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include dumb and without. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
aphonos (af'-o-nos) adj. 1. voiceless, i.e. mute (by nature or choice) 2. (figuratively) meaningless [from G1 (as a negative particle) and G5456] KJV: dumb, without signification Root(s): G1, G5456
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G880. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
mute
Usage: ἀφωνος, -ον (φωνή) [in LXX: Isa.53:7 (עָלַם ni.), Wis.4:19, 2Ma.3:29 * ;] dumb, speechless: Act.8:32 (LXX); of idols (MM, see word), 1Co.12:2; of beasts, 2Pe.2:19; τοσαῦτα γένη φωνῶν καὶ οὐδὲν ἄ.—so many kinds of voices and none voiceless, i.e. without signification, unintelligible: 1Co.14:10.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aphonos, 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.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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.
Strong's G880 (ἄφωνος) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
for he by the hand of God was cast down, and lay speechless without all hope of life.
For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; And he shall shake them from the foundation; And they shall be utterly laid waste, And be in sorrow; And their memorial shall perish.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G880.
And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
for he by the hand of God was cast down, and lay speechless without all hope of life.
For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; And he shall shake them from the foundation; And they shall be utterly laid waste, And be in sorrow; And their memorial shall perish.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G880, grouped by book.
Aphonos (Strong's G880) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dumb". aphonos (af'-o-nos) adj. 1. voiceless, i.e. mute (by nature or choice) 2. (figuratively) meaningless
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G880 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G880 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 dumb and without. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G880, with linked reader references where each row is available.