Quick Definition
τυφλός, ή, όν Adj blind
Strong's Definition
from, 5187; opaque (as if smoky), i.e. (by analogy) blind (physically or mentally)
KJV Usage: blind
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ή, -όν | τυφλόω
24.38 · Sensory Events and States · See
unable to see, blind pertaining to being unable to see
MAT 9:27 · MAT 9:28 · MAT 11:5 · MAT 12:22 · MAT 15:14 · MAT 15:14 · MAT 15:30 · MAT 15:31 · MAT 20:30 · MAT 21:14 · MRK 8:22 · MRK 8:23 · MRK 10:46 · MRK 10:49 · MRK 10:51 · LUK 4:18 · LUK 6:39 · LUK 6:39 · LUK 7:21 · LUK 7:22 · LUK 14:13 · LUK 14:21 · LUK 18:35 · JHN 5:3 · JHN 9:1 · JHN 9:2 · JHN 9:13 · JHN 9:17 · JHN 9:18 · JHN 9:19 · JHN 9:20 · JHN 9:24 · JHN 9:25 · JHN 9:32 · JHN 9:41 · JHN 10:21 · JHN 11:37 · ACT 13:11
32.42 · Understand · Lack of Capacity for Understanding
unable to understand, incapable of comprehending, blind (a figurative extension of meaning of τυφλός[a] ‘unable to see, blind,’ 24.38) pertaining to not being able to understand In a number of languages it is possible to preserve the figurative meaning of ‘blind’; in certain instances, however, part of the figurative meaning may be retained by translating ‘not able to see how to live’ or ‘not able to see the truth.’
MAT 15:14 · MAT 15:14 · MAT 23:16 · MAT 23:17 · MAT 23:19 · MAT 23:24 · MAT 23:26 · JHN 9:39 · JHN 9:40 · ROM 2:19 · 2PE 1:9 · REV 3:17
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τυφλός, -od, 6, (τύφω, to raise a smoke; hence prop. ‘darkened by smoke’), fr. Hom. down, Sept. for 11y, blind ; a. prop.: Mt. ix. 27sq.; xi. 5; Mk. viii. 22 sq-; x. 46; Lk. vii. 21sq.; xiv. 13,21; Jn. ix. 1 sq. 13; x. 21, ete. b. as often in prof. auth. fr. Pind. down, mentally dlind: Mt. xv. 14; xxiii. 17,19, 24, 26; Jn. ix. 39-41; Ro. ii. 19; 2 Pet. i. 9; Rev. iii. 17.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τυφλός typhlos 50x
blind, Mt. 9:27, 28; 11:5; 12:22; met. mentally blind, Mt. 15:14; 23:16
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τυφλός, -ή, -όν
[in LXX for עִוֵּר ;]
blind: as subst., ὁ τ., Mt 9:27, Mk 8:22, Lk 4:18 (LXX), Jo 5:3, al. Metaph.: Mt 15:14 23:16-26, Jo 9:39-41, Ro 2:19, II Pe 1:9, Re 3:17.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τυφλός (tuphlos) — blind. τυφλός, ή, όν, blind, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+], frequently in other writers; τυφλὸς ἐκ δεδορκότος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. Ἄρης, Πλοῦτος, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τ. ὄψις, ὀφθαλμοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+] blind to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but τ. τῆς προνοίας lacking vision of the future, [Refs]; τὰ τ. τοῦ σώματος, i. e. one's back, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; καὶ τυφλῷ γε δῆλον even a blind man can see that, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. of the limbs of the blind, τ. πούς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [βάκτρον], τοξεύματα, [Refs]
3. metaphorically of the other senses and the mind, τ. ἦτορ [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. metaphorically, τ. ὄλβος [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. of things, dark, dim, obscure, ἐλπίδες [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. σπιλάδες blind rocks, [Refs 5th c.BC+]hidden, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; τ. κίνημα, of revolution, [Refs]
II.2. of passages or apertures, blind, closed, with no outlet, τοῦ ἐντέρου τυφλόν τι, of the intestinum caecum (τὸ τυφλόν in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τ. τρῆμα the foramen caecum (stylo-mastoid), [Refs 1st c.BC+]; τ. ῥύμη a blind alley, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; of rivers and harbours, choked with mud, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the halcyon's nest, closed, tight, [Refs]; τυφλοὶ ὄζοι branches without buds or eyes, [Refs 4th c.BC+]dark, trackless, [Refs]; τ. μώλωψ a wound without an outlet, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; τὸ τ. ἅμμα καλούμενον the so-called unescapable knot, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of a hook (compare τυφλάγκιστρον), blunt, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
III. adverb, πρὸς τὸ ὠφέλιμον τυφλῶς ἔχειν to be blind to it, [Refs 5th c.BC+]. [ῠ by nature, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perhaps cf. Gothic daufs, O[Refs 5th c.BC+] déaf 'stupid', Olr. dub 'black'.]