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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, (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 24 times in 22 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - And Yahweh said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:14 - ‘You shall not curse a deaf man nor place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God; I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:18 - ‘For no one who has a defect shall come near: a blind man or a lame man or he who has a [fn]disfigured face or any deformed limb,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:22 - ‘Those that are blind or fractured or maimed or have a running sore or eczema or scabs, you shall not bring near to Yahweh nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21 - “But if it has any defect, such as lameness or blindness, or any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:18 -

‘Cursed is he who leads a blind person astray on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and you will [fn]grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not succeed in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed all your days, with none to save you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:6 -

Then the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, and they said to [fn]David, “You shall not come in here, but the blind and lame will turn you away”; [fn]thinking, “David cannot enter here.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:8 - And David said on that day, “Whoever would strike down the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul, through the water tunnel.” Therefore they say, “The blind or the lame shall not come into the house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:15 -

“I was eyes to the blind

And feet to the lame.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:8 -

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind;

Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down;

Yahweh loves the righteous;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:18 -

On that day the deaf will hear words of a book,

And out of [fn]darkness and thick darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:5 -

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,

And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7 -

To open blind eyes,

To bring out prisoners from the dungeon

And those who inhabit darkness from the prison.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:16 -

“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know,

In paths they do not know I will guide them.

I will make darkness into light before them

And rugged places into plains.

These are the things I will do,

And I will not forsake them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:18 -

Hear, you deaf!

And look, you blind, that you may see.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:19 -

Who is blind but My servant,

Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send?

Who is so blind as he that is [fn]at peace with Me,

Or so blind as the servant of Yahweh?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:8 -

Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,

And the deaf, even though they have ears.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:10 -

We grope along the wall like blind men;

We grope like those who have no eyes;

We stumble at midday as in the twilight,

Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 -

The Spirit of Lord Yahweh is upon me

Because Yahweh has anointed me

To bring good news to the [fn]afflicted;

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

To proclaim release to captives

And [fn]freedom to prisoners,

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 -

I will bring distress on men

So that they will walk like the blind

Because they have sinned against Yahweh;

And their blood will be poured out like dust

And their flesh like dung.

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:8 - “But when you present the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you present the lame and sick, is it not evil? Please, bring it near to your governor! Would he accept you? Or would he lift up your face?” says Yahweh of hosts.
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