Word

ᾄδω

áidō · G103 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to sing

To utter words in a melodic pattern

Examples
Ephesians 5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord;
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slaughtered, and You purchased people for God with Your blood from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated: they 3
Not stated (participle) 2

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 1 groups

ᾠδήsong 4

To or for whomIndirect object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

θεόςGod 1
κύριοςLord 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐνin+ καρδίαheart 1
ἐνin+ χάριςgrace, favor, thanks 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

שִׁיר shîyr · H7891 · to sing: Greek ἄδω and Hebrew שִׁיר both denote the act of singing, and the Septuagint regularly renders שִׁיר with ἄδω, making the two direct cross-linguistic equivalents for the concept of singing.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To sing33.109: This verb denotes singing in worship, as in Ephesians 5:19's instruction to speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with one's heart to the Lord.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ᾄδωáidō · G103ᾠδή ōidḗ · G5603 · song · 7×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ἀείδω); common in Greek of every period; in the Sept. for שׁוּר; to sing, chant; 1.…

(ἀείδω); common in Greek of every period; in the Sept. for שׁוּר; to sing, chant;
1. intransitive: τίνι, to the praise of anyone (Judith 16:1 (2)), Eph 5:19; Col 3:16 (in both passages of the lyrical emotion of a devout and grateful soul).
2. transitive: ᾠδήν, Rev 5:9; Rev 14:3; Rev 15:3.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sing, Lament5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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