χαλάω
chaláō · G5465 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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to let down, to lower
To cause something to move down gradually
ExamplesMark 2:4 And when they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and after digging an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralyzed man was lying.
Luke 5:4 Now when He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
Luke 5:5 Simon responded and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.”
How it’s used In 4 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
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- Not stated (participle) 3
- Not stated: I 2
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- δίκτυονnet 2
- κράββατοςcot 1
- σκάφηsmall boat 1
- σκεῦοςvessel, object 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 7 groups
- διάthrough+ θυρίςwindow 1
- διάthrough+ τεῖχοςcity wall 1
- εἰςto+ θάλασσαsea, lake 1
- εἰςto+ ἄγραcatch (of fish) 1
- ἐνin+ σαργάνηlarge basket 1
- ἐνin+ σπυρίςlarge basket 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔπωto say 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 1 entry
- To let down, to lower15.111
- Luke 5:4 has Jesus tell Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χάλω; future χαλάσω; 1 aorist ἐχάλασα; 1 aorist passive, ἐχαλάσθην; from Aeschylus and…
a. to loosen, slacken, relax.
b. to let down from a higher place to a lower: τί or τινα, Mk 2:4; Lk 5:4; Acts 27:17, Acts 27:30 (in these last two passages in a nautical sense, to lower); τινα ἐν συριδιδ, Acts 9:25; passive, 2 Cor 11:33.
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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