ἐκλαλέω
eklaléō · G1583 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to tell, to inform, to report on
To speak out about something
ExamplesActs 23:22 Then the commander let the young man go, instructing him, “Tell no one that you have notified me of these things.”
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐμφανίζωto make appear 1
To or for whomIndirect object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μηδείςno one 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παραγγέλλωto order, to command 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀναγγέλλω anangéllō · G312 · to announce, to inform, to tell
- ἀναγγέλλω shares the semantic field of making information known or reporting it to others, though it typically carries a more formal or neutral tone of announcement compared to the potentially secretive connotation of divulging implicit in ἐκλαλέω.
In the other Testament 2 words
- נָגַד nâgad · H5046 · to tell, to inform, to report
- The Hebrew verb נָגַד is a standard translation equivalent for Greek verbs of divulging or declaring information. Both refer to making something known or revealing information to others.
- גָּלָה gâlâh · H1540 · to reveal
- The Hebrew verb גָּלָה in its sense of 'reveal, disclose' is a close translation equivalent to ἐκλαλέω, both conveying the idea of bringing hidden information into the open or making it known.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To tell, to inform, to report on33.73
- Used in Acts 23:22, where the commander instructed the young man who reported the plot against Paul to tell no one that he had disclosed these things to him.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐκλάλω: 1 aorist infinitive ἐκλαλῆσαι; to speak out, divulge: τίνι, followed by ὅτι, Acts…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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