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Lexicon :: Strong's G5185 - typhlos

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τυφλός
Transliteration
typhlos (Key)
Pronunciation
toof-los'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 8:270,1196

Strong’s Definitions

†τυφλός typhlós, toof-los'; from, G5187; opaque (as if smoky), i.e. (by analogy) blind (physically or mentally):—blind.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x

The KJV translates Strong's G5185 in the following manner: blind (44x), blind man (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x
The KJV translates Strong's G5185 in the following manner: blind (44x), blind man (9x).

  1. blind

  2. mentally blind

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†τυφλός typhlós, toof-los'; from, G5187; opaque (as if smoky), i.e. (by analogy) blind (physically or mentally):—blind.
STRONGS G5185:
τυφλός, τυφλοῦ, ὁ (τύφω, to raise a smoke; hence, properly, 'darkened by smoke'), from Homer down, the Sept. for עִוֵּר, blind;
a. properly: Matthew 9:27; Matthew 11:5; Mark 8:22; Mark 10:46; Luke 7:21; Luke 14:13, 21; John 9:1f, 13; John 10:21, etc.
b. as often in secular authors from Pindar down, mentally blind: Matthew 15:14; Matthew 23:17, 19, 24, 26; John 9:39-41; Romans 2:19; 2 Peter 1:9; Revelation 3:17.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
9:27; 11:5; 15:14; 23:17; 23:19; 23:24; 23:26
Mark
8:22; 10:46
Luke
7:21; 14:13; 14:21
John
9:1; 9:13; 9:39; 9:40; 9:41; 10:21
Romans
2:19
2 Peter
1:9
Revelation
3:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5185 matches the Greek τυφλός (typhlos),
which occurs 50 times in 46 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:27 - And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:28 - When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:5 - the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers[fn] are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:22 - Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:14 - Let them alone; they are blind guides.[fn] And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:30 - And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:31 - so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:30 - And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord,[fn] have mercy on us, Son of David!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:14 - And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:16 - “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:17 - You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:19 - You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:24 - You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:26 - You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:22 - And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:23 - And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 10:46

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:46 - And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 10:49

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:49 - And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart. Get up; he is calling you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 10:51

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:51 - And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:18 - “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:39 - He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:21 - In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:22 - And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers[fn] are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:13 - But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:21 - So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 18:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 18:35 - As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3 - In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:1 - As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:2 - And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:13 - They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:17 - So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:18 - The Jews[fn] 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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:19 - and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:20 - His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:24 - So for the 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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:25 - He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:32 - Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:39 - Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:40 - Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:41 - Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt;[fn] but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:21 - Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:37 - But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:11 - And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:19 - and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:9 - For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:17 - For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
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