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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1"/><title>Strong's Greek: 850. αὐχμηρός (auchmeros) -- Gloomy, squalid, dirty, or murky.</title></title><link rel="canonical" href="http://biblehub.com/greek/850.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/strongsnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/interlinear/vmenus/hebrews/6-19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmstrongs/greek/850.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's</a> > <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Greek</a> > 850</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../greek/849b.htm" title="849b">◄</a> 850. auchmeros <a href="../greek/850a.htm" title="850a">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">auchmeros: Gloomy, squalid, dirty, or murky.</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">αὐχμηρός</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Adjective<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>auchmeros<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>owkh-may-ROS<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(owkh-may-ros')<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Gloomy, squalid, dirty, or murky.<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>(poetical, lit: dry and parched; then: squalid and rough), dingy, murky, obscure, dark, funereal.<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>Derived from the Greek root αὐχμός (auchmos), meaning "dryness" or "parched."<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span>While there is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "auchmeros," similar concepts can be found in words like חֹשֶׁךְ (choshech, Strong's H2822), meaning "darkness," which is often used metaphorically in the Hebrew Bible to describe spiritual or moral darkness.<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>The term "auchmeros" is used to describe something that is gloomy, murky, or squalid. It conveys a sense of darkness or uncleanliness, often used metaphorically to describe spiritual or moral conditions that are undesirable or lacking in light and purity.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In the ancient Greek world, cleanliness and light were often associated with purity and the divine, while darkness and squalor were linked to impurity and evil. The use of "auchmeros" in the New Testament would resonate with a first-century audience familiar with these associations, emphasizing the contrast between the light of Christ and the darkness of the world.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>850</b> <i>auxmērós</i> – properly, dry ("dried out") from strong heat, producing dust (parched dirt); (figuratively) <i>murky</i>, filled with extraneous filth (<i>suspended elements</i>) which impede vision; "<i>squalid</i> . . . '<i>dingy</i>, <i>dusky</i>, <i>obscure</i>, <i>dark</i>, funereal' " (Souter); dirty, miserable.</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 850: αὐχμηρός</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">αὐχμηρός</span></span>, <span class="greek2">ἀυχμηρα</span>, <span class="greek2">ἀυχμηρον</span> (<span class="greek2">αὐχμέω</span> to be squalid), <span class="accented">squalid, dirty</span> (<span class="abbreviation">Xenophon</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Plato</span>, and following), and since dirty things are destitute of brightness, <span class="accented">dark</span>: <a href="/interlinear/2_peter/1-19.htm">2 Peter 1:19</a>, <span class="abbreviation">Aristotle</span>, de color. 3 <span class="greek2">τό</span> <span class="greek2">λαμπρόν</span> <span class="greek2">ἤ</span> <span class="greek2">στιλβον</span> ... <span class="greek2">ἤ</span> <span class="greek2">τοὐναντίον</span> <span class="greek2">ἀυχμηρον</span> <span class="greek2">καί</span> <span class="greek2">ἀλαμπες</span>. (<span class="abbreviation">Hesychius</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Suidas</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Pollux</span>).<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>dark, gloomy<p>From auchmos (probably from a base akin to that of <a href="/greek/109.htm">aer</a>) (dust, as dried by wind); properly, dirty, i.e. (by implication) obscure -- dark. <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/109.htm">aer</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>αυχμηρω αυχμηρώ αὐχμηρῷ αυχμού αυχμώδης αφαγνιεί αφαγνιείς αφαγνιείτε αφαγνίσαι αφαγνίσασθαι αφαγνισθή αφαγνισθήσεται αφαίρεμα αφαιρέματα αφαιρέματος αφαιρεμάτων auchmero auchmērō auchmerôi auchmērō̂i<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/2_peter/1-19.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">2 Peter 1:19</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Adjective - Dative Masculine Singular">Adj-DMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/2_peter/1.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">φαίνοντι ἐν <b>αὐχμηρῷ</b> τόπῳ ἕως</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/2_peter/1.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> shining <span class="itali">in a dark</span> place,<br><a href="/kjvs/2_peter/1.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> that shineth in <span class="itali">a dark</span> place, until<br><a href="/interlinear/2_peter/1-19.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> shining in <span class="itali">[a] dark</span> place until<p><b><a href="/greek/850.htm">Strong's Greek 850</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_850.htm">1 Occurrence</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/auchme_ro__850.htm">αὐχμηρῷ — 1 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/849b.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="849b"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="849b" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/850a.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="850a"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="850a" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>