typhlos · blind

What it means

typhlos (τυφλός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “blind”.

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. Someone who cannot see.
2. Someone who does not see the truth.

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

Word study

Blind: one who does not see. Figuratively, one who does not understand what is in front of him. Of the same family is τυφλόω, ‘blind’ (verb).

• Blind men whom Jesus heals Matthew 9:27Mark 10:46John 9:1
• “The blind receive their sight”: a sign announced Matthew 11:5Luke 4:18
• “Blind guides” Matthew 15:14Matthew 23:16
• Blind in a figurative sense John 9:392 Peter 1:9Revelation 3:17

Historical and cultural background

John 9 tells the healing of “a man blind from birth” and ends with the word in a figurative sense (John 9:39-41). Bartimaeus is “a blind beggar” sitting beside the road (Mark 10:46).

How we translate it

Always “blind” (50 times).

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×17
• Mark×5
• Luke×8
• John×16
• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• 2 Peter×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 9:27

  And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

• Matthew 9:28

  When he had gone into the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus says to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They say to him, “Yes, Lord.”

• Matthew 11:5

  the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

• Matthew 12:22

  Then a man possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him; and he healed him, so that the mute man spoke and saw.

• Matthew 15:14

  Leave them; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

• Matthew 15:30

  And many crowds came to him, having with them the mute, blind, lame, maimed, and many others, and they set them at his feet; and he healed them,

• Matthew 15:31

  so that the crowd was amazed seeing the mute speaking, the maimed whole, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

• Matthew 20:30

  And look, two blind men sitting beside the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

• Matthew 21:14

  And the blind and lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

• Matthew 23:16

  Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the sanctuary, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound.’

• Matthew 23:17

  Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that sanctified the gold?

• Matthew 23:19

  Blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

• Matthew 23:24

  Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but swallow the camel!

• Matthew 23:26

  Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may also become clean.

• Mark 8:22

  And they come to Bethsaida. And they bring him a blind man and beg him to touch him.

• Mark 8:23

  And taking the blind man by the hand, he brought him out of the village; and spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked him, “Do you see anything?”

• Mark 10:46

  And they come to Jericho. And as he was leaving from Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting beside the road.

• Mark 10:49

  And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they call the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.”

• Mark 10:51

  And answering him, Jesus said, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbouni, let me see again.”

• Luke 4:18

  “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away the oppressed in freedom,

• Luke 6:39

  And he also told them a parable: “A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?

• Luke 7:21

  In that hour he healed many of diseases and afflictions and evil spirits, and to many blind people he granted sight.

• Luke 7:22

  And he answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.

• Luke 14:13

  But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;

• Luke 14:21

  And the slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

• Luke 18:35

  And it happened, as he was drawing near to Jericho, that a certain blind man was sitting beside the road begging.

• John 5:3

  In these lay a multitude of the sick: blind, lame, withered.

• John 9:1

  And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

• John 9:2

  And his disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

• John 9:13

  They bring him, the man who had once been blind, to the Pharisees.

• John 9:17

  So they say to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.”

• John 9:18

  So the Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

• John 9:19

  and asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he see now?”

• John 9:20

  So his parents answered and said, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind;

• John 9:24

  So for a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.”

• John 9:25

  So he answered, “Whether he is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

• John 9:32

  Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

• John 9:39

  And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”

• John 9:40

  Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, “Surely we are not blind too?”

• John 9:41

  Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin; but now you say, ‘We see’; your sin remains.”

And 10 more times.