850. auchmeros
Lexicon
auchmeros: Gloomy, squalid, dirty, or murky.

Original Word: αὐχμηρός
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: auchmeros
Pronunciation: owkh-may-ROS
Phonetic Spelling: (owkh-may-ros')
KJV: dark
Word Origin: [from auchmos "dust, as dried by wind" (probably from a base akin to that of G109 (ἀήρ - air))]

1. (properly) dirty
2. (by implication) obscure

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
dark, gloomy

From auchmos (probably from a base akin to that of aer) (dust, as dried by wind); properly, dirty, i.e. (by implication) obscure -- dark.

see GREEK aer

HELPS Word-studies

850 auxmērós – properly, dry ("dried out") from strong heat, producing dust (parched dirt); (figuratively) murky, filled with extraneous filth (suspended elements) which impede vision; "squalid . . . 'dingy, dusky, obscure, dark, funereal' " (Souter); dirty, miserable.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 850: αὐχμηρός

αὐχμηρός, ἀυχμηρα, ἀυχμηρον (αὐχμέω to be squalid), squalid, dirty (Xenophon, Plato, and following), and since dirty things are destitute of brightness, dark: 2 Peter 1:19, Aristotle, de color. 3 τό λαμπρόν στιλβον ... τοὐναντίον ἀυχμηρον καί ἀλαμπες. (Hesychius, Suidas, Pollux).

Forms and Transliterations
αυχμηρω αυχμηρώ αὐχμηρῷ αυχμού αυχμώδης αφαγνιεί αφαγνιείς αφαγνιείτε αφαγνίσαι αφαγνίσασθαι αφαγνισθή αφαγνισθήσεται αφαίρεμα αφαιρέματα αφαιρέματος αφαιρεμάτων auchmero auchmērō auchmerôi auchmērō̂i
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Englishman's Concordance
2 Peter 1:19 Adj-DMS
GRK: φαίνοντι ἐν αὐχμηρῷ τόπῳ ἕως
NAS: shining in a dark place,
KJV: that shineth in a dark place, until
INT: shining in [a] dark place until

Strong's Greek 850
1 Occurrence


αὐχμηρῷ — 1 Occ.

849b
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