Strong’s G880 · Greek
ἄφωνος
áphōnos · af'-o-nos
Origin from Α (G1) (as a negative particle) and φωνή (G5456);
Meaning voiceless, i.e. mute (by nature or choice); figuratively, unmeaning
In the King James Version dumb, without signification.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 8:32The 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:
- 1 Corinthians 12:2Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
- 1 Corinthians 14:10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.
- 2 Peter 2:16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.