Quick Definition
ἀπορία, ας, ἡ n.f. perplexity, anxiety
Strong's Definition
from the same as 639; a (state of) quandary
KJV Usage: perplexity
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | ἀ- + πορεύομαι
32.9 · Understand · Understand
to be at a loss, to be uncertain, to be anxious, to be in doubt, consternation to be in perplexity, with the implication of serious anxiety
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπορία, -as, 9, (ἀπορέω, 4. V-), the state of one who is ἄπορος, perplexity: Lk. xxi.25. (Often in Grk. writ. fr. [Pind. and] Hdt. down; Sept.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπορία aporia 1x
doubt, uncertainty, perplexity, Lk. 21:25*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀπορία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἀπορέω), [in LXX for בֶּהָלָה, etc.;]
perplexity: Lk 21:25 (MM, s.v.; on the construction, v. Field, Notes, 74 f.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπορία. γώ 5208 (i/B.c.) τῶν μὲν διὰ τὴν ἀπ[ο]ρίαν ἐκλελοιπότων τὴν πόλιν, τῶν δὲ διὰ τὴν γενομένηϊν λοι]μικὴν περίστασιν καὶ τὰς ἀρρωστίας μὴ δυναμένων [φυ]λάσσειν τὴν πατρίδα, where we naturally think of ἀ. as = ‘‘poverty,” but the interpretation given in the last article is applicable. In P Fay 20° (an imperial edict, iii/iv A.D.), which is restored εἴ ye μὴ τὸ τῆς π[α]ρὰ τοῖς Kal τοῖς δημοσίας ἀπορίας ἐμποδὼν ἣν, πολὺ ἂν φανερωτέραν τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ μεγαλοψυχίαν ἐπιδεικ[ν]ύμενος, the editors translate ‘‘if the fact of the public embarrassment existing in various parts had not stood in my way, I should have made a much more conspicuous display of my magnanimity;” but they remark that the δημοσίους of the ill-spelt text should perhaps be emended δημοσίοις, with a lost word after the first tots. Cf. also P Lips I. 367 (a.p. 376 or 378). In CPHerm 6° we have ἀπορίᾳ δὲ πλοίων ‘from shortage of ships.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀπορία (aporia) — perplexity. ἀπορία, Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (ἄπορος) being ἄπορος: hence,
I. of places, difficulty of passing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. of things, difficulty, straits, in singular and plural, ἐς ἀπορίην πολλὴν ἀπιγμένος, ἀπειλημένος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἀπορίῃ or ἐν ἀποίῃσι ἔχεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπορια τελέθει, with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοῦ μὴ ἡσυχάζειν impossibility of keeping quiet, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. not providing a thing, [Refs]
III. of persons, difficulty of dealing with or getting at, τῶν Σκυθέων[Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.2. being at a loss, embarrassment, perplexity, ἀ. τοῦ δυστυχεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; distress, discomfort, in illness, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.3. ἀ. τινός lack of a person or thing, σοφῶν ἀνδρῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τροφῆς, χρημάτων, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπώλλυντο.. ἀπορίᾳ τοῦ θεραπεύοντος for want of one to attend to them, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. πλοίων shortage of ships, [Refs]: absolutely, need, poverty, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to εὐπορία, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV. in Dialectic, question for discussion, difficulty, puzzle, ἀπορίᾳ σχόμενος[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἣν ἀπορεῖς[Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀ. λύειν, διαλύειν, [Refs 1st c.BC+]