Word

ᾠδή

ōidḗ · G5603 · Greek · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

song

A particular melodic pattern with verbal content

Examples
Ephesians 5:19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord;
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slaughtered, and You purchased people for God with Your blood from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ΜωσεύςMoses 1
ἀρνίονlamb 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 2 groups

καινόςnew 2
πνευματικόςspiritual 2

What is done to itIt is the object

5 occurrences in 2 groups

ᾄδωto sing 4
μανθάνωto learn 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.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word

שִׁיר shîyr · H7892 · song: ᾠδή (ōidḗ, G5603) and שִׁיר (shîyr, H7892) are direct translation equivalents denoting sung words or songs in general usage, with ᾠδή serving as the standard Greek rendering of the Hebrew שִׁיר across poetic and liturgical contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Song33.110: Colossians 3:16 instructs, “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”

Word family 3 words

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

ᾄδω áidō · G103 · to sing · 5×ᾠδήōidḗ · G5603

Also from the root ᾄδω

κιθαρῳδός kitharōidós · G2790 · harpist · 2×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ᾠδῆς, ἡ (equivalent to ἀοιδή, from ἀείδω, i. e. ᾄδω, to sing), from Sophocles and…

ᾠδῆς, ἡ (equivalent to ἀοιδή, from ἀείδω, i. e. ᾄδω, to sing), from Sophocles and Euripides down, the Sept. for שִׁיר and שִׁירָה, a song, lay, ode; in the Scriptures a song in praise of God or Christ: Rev 5:9; Rev 14:3; Μωϋσέως καί τοῦ ἀρνίου, the song which Moses and Christ taught them to sing, Rev 15:3; plural with the epithet πνευματικαι, Eph 5:19 (here Lachmann brackets πνευματικαῖς); Col 3:16. (Synonym: see ὕμνος, at the end.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sing, Lament7 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

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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