aphōnos · silent, mute

What it means

aphōnos (ἄφωνος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “silent, mute”.

Without voice; of sounds, without meaning.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Speechless: unable to say anything.
2. Communicating nothing, understood by no one.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mute ×2
• silent ×1
• without meaning ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Peter×1

• Acts 8:32

  Now the passage of Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to slaughter, and like a lamb silent before the one who shears it, so he does not open his mouth.

• 1 Corinthians 12:2

  You know that when you were of the nations, you were carried away to mute idols, however you were led.

• 1 Corinthians 14:10

  There are perhaps so many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.

• 2 Peter 2:16

  but he received a rebuke for his own transgression: a mute beast of burden speaking with a human voice restrained the madness of the prophet.