αφφουσωθ <Semitic; Hellenistic period>
👉 αφφουσωθ (vv.ll. απφουσωθ, αφφουσιων) – probably ‘isolation (on account of leprosy)’ (LXX: 2 Reg. 15.5; 2 Chr. 26.21).
🅔 A transliteration of Biblical Hebrew ḥop̄šîṯ / ḥop̄šûṯ perh. ‘freedom (an euphemistic usage for isolation on account of leprosy)’. The vocalisation of αφφουσωθ differs much from the Masoretic.
📖 Data: DCH: III, 290f.; HALOT: 342. Ref.: GELS: 74; Simotas 1969: 36f.