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φθόγγος

phthóngos · G5353 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. sound

    Any type of sound, including human speech, but normally a distinctive type of sound as opposed to confused noise

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 14:7 Yet even lifeless instruments, whether flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

  2. utterance, message, what is uttered

    (Derivative of φθέγγομαι ‘to utter,’) An utterance, with possible focus upon the clarity of the verbal sounds

    Examples

    Romans 10:18 But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? On the contrary: “THEIR VOICE HAS GONE OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD.”

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 2 entries
Sound14.74
1 Corinthians 14:7 asks how, if lifeless instruments like the flute or harp “do not produce a distinction in the tones”, anyone will know what is being played.
Utterance, message, what is uttered33.104
Romans 10:18 quotes the psalm, “THEIR VOICE HAS GONE OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD.”
Word family 3 words

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

φθέγγομαι phthéngomai · G5350 · to speak, to utter · 3×ἀποφθέγγομαι apophthéngomai · G669 · to speak, to utter · 3×φθόγγοςphthóngos · G5353
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φθογγου, ὁ (φθέγγομαι, which see), a musical sound, whether vocal or instrumental (Wis.…
φθογγου, ὁ (φθέγγομαι, which see), a musical sound, whether vocal or instrumental (Wis. 19:17): 1 Cor 14:7; Rom 10:18, in this latter passive, Paul transfers what is said in Ps 18:5 to the voices of the preachers of the gospel. (Homer, Tragg., Xenophon, Plato, others.)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Sound1 occurrenceSpeak, Talk1 occurrence

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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