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ἅλλομαι

hállomai · G242 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to leap, to jump

    To leap or to jump into the air

    Examples

    Acts 3:8 And leaping up, he stood and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

    Acts 14:10 and he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” And the man leaped up and began to walk.

  2. to bubble up, to well up

    The action of water forming bubbles and welling up from underneath the ground

    Examples

    John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

How it’s used In 2 roles

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3 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

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.

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.

Semantic domains 2 entries
To bubble up, to well up14.30
In John 4:14, Jesus promises that the water He gives “will become in him a fountain of water springing up (halloménou) to eternal life,” describing water welling up from within.
To leap, to jump15.238
In Acts 3:8, the healed lame man, “leaping up (hallámenos), he stood and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God,” describing the physical act of jumping.
Word family 5 words

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

ἅλλομαιhállomai · G242ἀγαλλιάω agalliáō · G21 · to be extremely joyful, to be overjoyed, to rejoice greatly · 11×ἀγαλλίασις agallíasis · G20 · to be extremely joyful, to rejoice greatly, extreme gladness · 5×ἐξάλλομαι exállomai · G1814 · to jump up, to leap up · 1×ἐφάλλομαι ephállomai · G2177 · to jump on, to leap upon · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon imperfect ἡλλόμην; aorist ἡλάμην and ἡλόμην (Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p.…
imperfect ἡλλόμην; aorist ἡλάμην and ἡλόμην (Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 108; (Winers Grammar, 82 (79); Buttmann, 54 (47))); to leap (Latinsalio): Acts 3:8; Acts 14:10 (Rec. ἥλλετο; G L T Tr WH ἥλατο); to spring up, gush up, of water, Jn 4:14 (as in Latinsalire, Vergil ecl. 5, 47; Suetonius, Octav. 82). (Compare: ἐξάλλομαι, ἐφάλλομαι.)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Events Involving Liquids and Dry Masses1 occurrenceJump, Leap2 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

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