ἠχέω
ēchéō · G2278 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to produce a sound, to make noise
To produce a sound or noise not involving human speech
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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brass gong
(An idiom, literally: echoing brass, or: resounding brass) A gong made of brass
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.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- To produce a sound, to make noise14.80
- In 1 Corinthians 13:1, Paul writes, “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,” using this verb for the ordinary act of producing a sound.
- Brass gong6.95
- In the same verse, 1 Corinthians 13:1, the specific instrument named, “a noisy gong,” is the brass instrument this word denotes when used as a noun-like reference for the object that makes the sound.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ἤχῳ); (ἦχος, which see); (from Hesiod down); to sound: 1 Cor 13:1; used of the roaring…
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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