ἀλαλάζω
alalázō · G214 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to clang
To make a loud, reverberating sound
Examples1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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to weep loudly, to wail
To cry or weep intensely and with wailing
ExamplesMark 5:38 They came to the house of the synagogue official, and He saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing.
How it’s used In 2 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
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- θεωρέωto see, to look at, to observe 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 2 words
- רוּעַ rûwaʻ · H7321 · to shout, to cry out, to sound an alarm
- Hebrew רוּעַ (rûwaʻ, H7321) encompasses a broader semantic range including both loud shouting/crying and trumpet blasts, while Greek ἀλαλάζω (alalázō, G214) specifically denotes loud, resonant vocalizations (wailing, clanging), capturing the vocal subset of רוּעַ's usage.
- יָלַל yâlal · H3213 · to wail, to howl
- Both denote loud, mournful vocalization (wailing/howling), with overlapping semantic ranges in contexts of lamentation and distress.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To clang14.82
- In 1 Corinthians 13:1, without love Paul says he has “become a noisy gong or a clanging (alalázon) cymbal,” where the word describes the harsh, resonant clash of metal.
- To weep loudly, to wail25.139
- In Mark 5:38, at the synagogue official's house Jesus “saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing (alalázontas),” describing the loud, public expression of mourning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from Pindar down); a. properly, to repeat frequently the cry ἄλαλα, as soldiers used to…
a. properly, to repeat frequently the cry ἄλαλα, as soldiers used to do on entering battle,
b. universally, to utter a joyful shout: Ps 46:2; Ps 65:2; and in secular writings c. to wail, lament: Mk 5:38 (הֵילִיל Jer 4:8; Jer 32:20); cf. ὀλολύζω, Latinululare. (Synonyms: see κλαίω at the end)
d. to ring loudly, to clang: 1 Cor 13:1 (cf. ἐν κυμβάλοις ἀλαλαγμοῦ, Ps 150:5).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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