Word

κυλιόω

kylióō · G2947 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to roll about, to wallow

    The motion of an object rolling back and forth or rolling about

    Examples

    Mark 9:20 And they brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, the spirit immediately threw him into convulsions, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

How it’s used In 1 role

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Who or what does itSubject

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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In the other Testament 2 words
גָּלַל gâlal · H1556 · to roll, to roll up
Standard Hebrew equivalent for 'to roll'; used for rolling stones, scrolls, and other objects, directly corresponding to the Greek κυλιόω in meaning and usage
פָּלַשׁ pâlash · H6428 · to roll, to wallow
Hebrew verb specifically used for rolling or wallowing, particularly in contexts of rolling in dust or ashes; closely matches the 'wallow' sense of κυλιόω
Semantic domains 1 entry
To roll about, to wallow16.17
κυλιόω describes rolling about, particularly on the ground. Mark 9:20 recounts that when the demon-possessed boy saw Jesus, “the spirit immediately threw him into convulsions, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth,” the ἐκυλίετο naming this rolling about during the convulsion.
Word family 9 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (for κυλινδω more common in earlier writings), to roll; passive imperfect 3 person…
: (for κυλινδω more common in earlier writings), to roll; passive imperfect 3 person singular ἐκυλίετο; to be rolled, to wallow: Mk 9:20. ((Aristotle, h. a. 5, 19, 18, etc.; Dionysius Halicarnassus; the Sept.); Polybius 26, 10, 16; Aelian n. a. 7, 33; Epictetus diss. 4, 11, 29.) (Compare: ἀνακυλίω, αποκυλιω(, προσκυλίω.)

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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