Word

κραυγάζω

kraugázō · G2905 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to shout, to scream

    To shout or cry out, with the possible implication of the unpleasant nature of the sound

    Examples

    Matthew 12:19 “HE WILL NOT QUARREL, NOR CRY OUT; NOR WILL ANYONE HEAR HIS VOICE IN THE STREETS.

    John 11:43 And when He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

    John 12:13 they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began shouting, “Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, indeed, the King of Israel!”

How it’s used In 3 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

9 occurrences in 6 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

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 2 words
ἐπιφωνέω epiphōnéō · G2019 · to cry out, to shout, to call out
Both verbs denote loud vocal utterance. The directional force implied by ἐπι- in ἐπιφωνέω, aimed at something specific, contrasts with the more undifferentiated clamor of the target, but this is a matter of degree and nuance rather than a categorical difference, and both share the underlying concept of vocalized outcry.
βοάω boáō · G994 · to cry out, to scream, to shout
Both terms denote loud vocal outcry or shouting. βοάω (boáō, G994) emphasizes calling out for help or shouting in a tumultuous context, while κραυγάζω (kraugázō, G2905) denotes clamorous shouting. The terms function as near synonyms within the broader semantic field of vocal outcry, with βοάω (boáō, G994) slightly more focused on the purpose or context of the shout and κραυγάζω (kraugázō, G2905) on the manner of vocalization itself.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To shout, to scream33.83
κραυγάζω describes crying out loudly. John 11:43 recounts that at Lazarus' tomb, Jesus “cried out with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’,” the ἐκραύγασεν naming this loud cry that summoned Lazarus from the tomb.
Word family 4 words

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

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon imperfect 3 person plural ἐκραύγαζον; future κραυγάσω; 1 aorist ἐκραύγασα; (κραυγή); to…
imperfect 3 person plural ἐκραύγαζον; future κραυγάσω; 1 aorist ἐκραύγασα; (κραυγή); to cry out, cry aloud, (equivalent to κράζω (see βοάω, at the end, and below)): Mt 12:19; Acts 22:23; to shout, foll. by direct discourse, Jn 19:15 and L T Tr WH in ; with λέγων added, to cry out in these words, followed by direct discourse: Jn 18:40; Jn 19:6 (where T omits λέγοντες), and L T Tr WH also in 12; κραυγάζειν καί λέγειν, Lk 4:41 L T Tr marginal reading; φωνή μεγάλη ἐκραύγασεν, followed by direct discourse, Jn 11:43. τίνι, to cry out to, call to, one (see κράζω, 2 and at the end), followed by direct discourse Mt 15:22 R G. The word is rare in Greek writings: Demosthenes, p. 1258, 26; of the shouts in the theatres, Epictetus diss. 3, 4, 4; of a raven, ibid. 3, 1, 37; Galen, others; first in a poetic fragment in Plato, rep. 10, p. 601 b.; once in the O. T. viz. 2 Esdr. 3:13. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 337.

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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