kophos describes a condition of impaired hearing or speech, often in healing and exorcism accounts.

The adjective marks persons or a spirit in contexts of impaired hearing or speech: those brought for healing, those who hear or speak after restoration, and a spirit addressed as mute and deaf. The surrounding clauses specify hearing, speech, or both rather than establishing separate lexical meanings from the translation’s varied wording.

1. Impaired hearing or speech · dominant

   The adjective identifies people whose condition is addressed in healing scenes: in Mark 7:32 the accusative singular masculine form describes the man brought to Jesus, while the APB renders him as “a deaf man who could hardly talk.” In Matthew 11:5 and Luke 7:22, the nominative plural masculine form occurs in lists where the APB renders that those so described “hear”; in Matthew 9:33 the singular form stands in the clause where, after the demon is cast out, the man speaks. Mark 9:25 applies the neuter singular form to an unclean spirit that the APB addresses as “mute and deaf,” showing the same impairment language used of the spirit in that episode.

   Mark 7:32Matthew 11:5Luke 7:22Matthew 9:33Mark 9:25Luke 1:22

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses “deaf,” “mute,” and “deaf and mute” in these verses, sometimes pairing the descriptions within the same clause. Those English variations show the verse contexts but do not require separate senses for the adjective.