Strong G2974κωφός
deaf/mute
- Transliteration
- kōphos
- Pronunciation
- ko-fos'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
From G2875; blunted that is (figuratively) of hearing (deaf) or speech (dumb): - deaf dumb speechless.
Detailed definition
κωφός, -ή, -όν
(κόπτω), [in LXX chiefly (Exo.4:11, al.) for אִלֵּם; for חָרָשׁ, Hab.2:18;]
blunt, dull. Metaphorical, of the senses, esp.
__(a) of speech, dumb: Mat.9:32-33 12:22 15:30-31, Luk.1:22 11:14;
__(b) of hearing, deaf: Mat.11:5, Mrk.7:32, 37 9:25, Luk.7:22.†
(AS)
(κόπτω), [in LXX chiefly (Exo.4:11, al.) for אִלֵּם; for חָרָשׁ, Hab.2:18;]
blunt, dull. Metaphorical, of the senses, esp.
__(a) of speech, dumb: Mat.9:32-33 12:22 15:30-31, Luk.1:22 11:14;
__(b) of hearing, deaf: Mat.11:5, Mrk.7:32, 37 9:25, Luk.7:22.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2974 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- dumb6
- deaf5
- speechless1
First verses
- Matthew 9:32As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
- Matthew 9:33And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.
- Matthew 11:5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
- Matthew 12:22Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
- Matthew 15:30And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them:
- Matthew 15:31Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
- Mark 7:32And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
- Mark 7:37And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
- Mark 9:25When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
- Luke 1:22And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
- Luke 7:22Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
- Luke 11:14And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κωφ-ός, ή, όν,
blunt, dull, obtuse, opposed to ὀξύς, κ. βέλος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.390, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 495.27; κ. καλάμη “Anthologia Graeca” 12.25 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Statyllius Flaccus Epigrammaticus).)]
II metaphorically,
II.1 of sound, mute, noiseless, κύματι κωφῷ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.16)]; κωφὴν γὰρ δὴ γαῖαν ἀεικίζει is maltreating dumb, senseless earth, [Refs (24.54)]; τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἔσκε κωφά the other parts sounded dull, opposed to to the ringing of the hollow parts when struck, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.200)]: neuter plural as adverb, κωφὰ δὲ πόντος κεῖτο [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 1103)]; ὁ κ. λιμήν, probably the bay of Munychia, as opposed to to the noisy Piraeus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.31)]; κωφότερος ὁ ψόφος ἔσται, i.e. muffled, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 19)]; τῶν μεταλλικῶν κωφότατος [ὁ σίδηρος] rings least, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.721f; κωφοὶ ἄνεμοι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.51.)]
II.2 after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], of men or animals, dumb, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 6.7, etc.)]; καὶ κωφοῦ συνίημι καὶ οὐ φωνεῦντος ἀκούω Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.47)]; οὐ.. παρὰ κωφὸν ὁ τυφλὸς ἔοικε λαλῆσαι, i.e. is not so dumb but that he will answer the blind fool who assails him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 6; κωφότερος κίχλης 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 29)]; κ. χάρις a mute gift (i.e. an epitaph), [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 298 (from Teos))]; so κωφοῖς δάκρυσι [Refs (“IPE” 2.299 (from Panticapaeum))]; κ. τάφοι probably in [Refs (“IG” 12(8).441.26)]; κ. προσωπεῖον mute figure on the stage, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.520, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.791e; κ. πρόσωπον 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 13.19.3)]; κ. καὶ ἄλογος, of a house, with no echoes, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dom.” 1.)]
II.2.b deaf, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (hymnus ad Mercurium 92, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 34. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 202, “Ch.” 881; λήθην κωφήν, ἄναυδον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 670)]; ὅσοι γίνονται κ. ἐκ γενετῆς, πάντες καὶ ἐνεοὶ γίνονται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 536b3)] (hence of a deaf and dumb person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.34, “BGU” 1196.49 (1st c.BC),compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus); with _genitive_, κωφὴ ἀκοῆς αἴσθησις 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 196.5, conjecture in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 932a)]; κ. Ἑλλάδος φωνᾶς deaf of one's Greek ear, i.e. ignorant of Greek, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Dialexeis 5th c.BC” 6.12; σπαράγματα κωφὰ τοῦ βεβαιοῦντος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1108d.)]
II.2.c metaphorically, νοῦς ὁρῇ καὶ νοῦς ἀκούει· τἆλλα κωφὰ καὶ τυφλά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 249; κ. πέτρος 4th c.BC: Moschio Tragicus Trag. 7; μαψαῦραι 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 67; ἐρημία 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.40)]: neuter plural as adverb, κωφὰ χλιαίνεσθαι feebly, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 12.125 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus).)]
II.3 ὄμμα κ. vacant, lack-lustre eye, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 807b23.)]
II.4 of the senses in general, dull, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Sensu” 19 (_comparative_).)]
II.5 of the mind, dull, obtuse, ἐγὼ ὁ πάντα κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 911, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.87; τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ποιεῖν κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 88b: κωφοί, οἱ, 'the Dullards', title of satyr-play by Sophocles.)]
II.5.b of things, senseless, unmeaning, obscure, κ. καὶ παλαί᾽ ἔπη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 290; κ. διήγησις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.36.4, compare 5.21.4; ὑπόνοια 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.71 K.; σκῶμμα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.712a)]; but κ. εὐπραγίαι is probably falsa lectio for{κοῦφαι}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 38.27.)] adverb -φῶς obscurely, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 251.25)]: comparative -ότερον, ἐνοχλεῖν less acutely, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ κακιῶν ί” p.21 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]
blunt, dull, obtuse, opposed to ὀξύς, κ. βέλος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.390, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 495.27; κ. καλάμη “Anthologia Graeca” 12.25 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Statyllius Flaccus Epigrammaticus).)]
II metaphorically,
II.1 of sound, mute, noiseless, κύματι κωφῷ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.16)]; κωφὴν γὰρ δὴ γαῖαν ἀεικίζει is maltreating dumb, senseless earth, [Refs (24.54)]; τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἔσκε κωφά the other parts sounded dull, opposed to to the ringing of the hollow parts when struck, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.200)]: neuter plural as adverb, κωφὰ δὲ πόντος κεῖτο [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 1103)]; ὁ κ. λιμήν, probably the bay of Munychia, as opposed to to the noisy Piraeus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.31)]; κωφότερος ὁ ψόφος ἔσται, i.e. muffled, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 19)]; τῶν μεταλλικῶν κωφότατος [ὁ σίδηρος] rings least, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.721f; κωφοὶ ἄνεμοι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.51.)]
II.2 after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], of men or animals, dumb, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 6.7, etc.)]; καὶ κωφοῦ συνίημι καὶ οὐ φωνεῦντος ἀκούω Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.47)]; οὐ.. παρὰ κωφὸν ὁ τυφλὸς ἔοικε λαλῆσαι, i.e. is not so dumb but that he will answer the blind fool who assails him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 6; κωφότερος κίχλης 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 29)]; κ. χάρις a mute gift (i.e. an epitaph), [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 298 (from Teos))]; so κωφοῖς δάκρυσι [Refs (“IPE” 2.299 (from Panticapaeum))]; κ. τάφοι probably in [Refs (“IG” 12(8).441.26)]; κ. προσωπεῖον mute figure on the stage, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.520, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.791e; κ. πρόσωπον 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 13.19.3)]; κ. καὶ ἄλογος, of a house, with no echoes, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dom.” 1.)]
II.2.b deaf, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (hymnus ad Mercurium 92, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 34. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 202, “Ch.” 881; λήθην κωφήν, ἄναυδον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 670)]; ὅσοι γίνονται κ. ἐκ γενετῆς, πάντες καὶ ἐνεοὶ γίνονται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 536b3)] (hence of a deaf and dumb person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.34, “BGU” 1196.49 (1st c.BC),compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus); with _genitive_, κωφὴ ἀκοῆς αἴσθησις 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 196.5, conjecture in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 932a)]; κ. Ἑλλάδος φωνᾶς deaf of one's Greek ear, i.e. ignorant of Greek, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Dialexeis 5th c.BC” 6.12; σπαράγματα κωφὰ τοῦ βεβαιοῦντος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1108d.)]
II.2.c metaphorically, νοῦς ὁρῇ καὶ νοῦς ἀκούει· τἆλλα κωφὰ καὶ τυφλά [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 249; κ. πέτρος 4th c.BC: Moschio Tragicus Trag. 7; μαψαῦραι 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 67; ἐρημία 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.40)]: neuter plural as adverb, κωφὰ χλιαίνεσθαι feebly, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 12.125 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus).)]
II.3 ὄμμα κ. vacant, lack-lustre eye, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 807b23.)]
II.4 of the senses in general, dull, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Sensu” 19 (_comparative_).)]
II.5 of the mind, dull, obtuse, ἐγὼ ὁ πάντα κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 911, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.87; τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ποιεῖν κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 88b: κωφοί, οἱ, 'the Dullards', title of satyr-play by Sophocles.)]
II.5.b of things, senseless, unmeaning, obscure, κ. καὶ παλαί᾽ ἔπη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 290; κ. διήγησις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.36.4, compare 5.21.4; ὑπόνοια 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.71 K.; σκῶμμα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.712a)]; but κ. εὐπραγίαι is probably falsa lectio for{κοῦφαι}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 38.27.)] adverb -φῶς obscurely, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 251.25)]: comparative -ότερον, ἐνοχλεῖν less acutely, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ κακιῶν ί” p.21 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]