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ἄλαλος

álalos · G216 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. dumb, mute, unable to speak, incapable of talking

    Pertaining to not being able to speak or talk

    Examples

    Mark 7:37 And they were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all things well; He makes even those who are deaf hear, and those who are unable to talk, speak.”

    Mark 9:17 And one person from the crowd answered Him, “Teacher, I brought You my son, because he has a spirit that makes him unable to speak;

    Mark 9:25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again!”

How it’s used In 1 role

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

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
κωφός kōphós · G2974 · dumb, mute, unable to speak
The target term μογιλάλος and κωφός (“blunted,” i.e. deaf or dumb) share the specific sense of being unable to speak; the target is specialized to that muteness sense, while κωφός carries it alongside a sense of deafness — genuine convergence in the shared sense of speechlessness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Dumb, mute, unable to speak, incapable of talking33.106
In Mark 9:17, a father describes his son as having “a spirit that makes him unable to speak (álalon),” where the word names the inability to talk.
Word family 12 words

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

λαλέω laléō · G2980 · to speak, to say, to talk · 298×συλλαλέω syllaléō · G4814 · to talk with, to speak with, to converse · 6×καταλαλέω katalaléō · G2635 · to speak evil of, to slander, slander · 5×ἄλαλοςálalos · G216λαλιά laliá · G2981 · what is said, talk, utterance · 3×διαλαλέω dialaléō · G1255 · to converse, to discuss · 2×καταλαλία katalalía · G2636 · to speak evil of, to slander, slander · 2×προσλαλέω proslaléō · G4354 · to speak to, to address · 2×ἀλάλητος alálētos · G215 · what cannot be expressed in words · 1×ἀνεκλάλητος aneklálētos · G412 · what cannot be expressed in words · 1×ἐκλαλέω eklaléō · G1583 · to tell, to inform, to report on · 1×κατάλαλος katálalos · G2637 · slanderer, one who insults · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (λάλος, talking, talkative) (from Aeschylus on), speechless, dumb, lacking the faculty of…
(λάλος, talking, talkative) (from Aeschylus on), speechless, dumb, lacking the faculty of speech: Mk 7:37; πνεῦμα, Mk 9:17, Mk 9:25, because the defects of demoniacs were thought to proceed from the nature and peculiarities of the demons by which they were possessed. (the Sept. Ps 37:14; Psalm 30:19; ἀλάλου καί κακοῦ πνεύματος πλήρης, Plutarch, de orac. def. 51, p. 438 b.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Speak, Talk3 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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