Original Word: ἀχλύς, ύος, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: achlus
Phonetic Spelling: (akh-looce')
Definition: a mist
Usage: a mist, dimness, darkening.Word Origin
a prim. word
Definition
a mist
NASB Translation
mist (1).

STRONGS NT 887: ἀχλύς

ἀχλύς, ἀχλυος, ἡ, a mist, dimness (Latincaligo), especially over the eyes (a poetic word, often in Homer; then in Hesiod, Aeschylus; in prose writings from (Aristotle, meteor. 2, 8, p. 367{b}, 17 etc. and) Polybius 34, 11, 15 on; (of a cataract, Dioscor. Cf. Trench, § c.)): Acts 13:11. (Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 3 τάς τῶν πολεμίων ὄψεις ἀμαυρωσαι τόν Θεόν παρεκάλει ἀχλυν αὐταῖς ἐπιβαλοντα. Metaphorically, of the mind, Clement of Rome, 2 Cor. 1, 6 [ET] ἀχλυος γέμειν.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

mist.

Of uncertain derivation; dimness of sight, i.e. (probably) a cataract -- mist.

Forms and Transliterations

αχλυς αχλύς ἀχλὺς αχούχ ομιχλαι ὁμίχλαι achlus achlys achlỳs homichlai homíchlai omichlai

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