αὐλός
aulós · G836 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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flute
A musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of finger holes used to alter the tone
Examples1 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?
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 1 word
- חָלִיל châlîyl · H2485 · flute
- Greek αὐλός and Hebrew חָלִיל both denote a wind instrument played by blowing, specifically a flute or pipe, representing direct translation equivalents across the LXX corpus for this musical instrument term.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Flute6.86
- Used of the musical instrument itself, as in Paul's illustration of the flute or harp producing a distinction in tones in 1 Corinthians 14:7.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon αὐλοῦ, ὁ (ἄω, αὔω) (from Homer down), a pipe: 1 Cor 14:7. (Cf. Stainer, Music of the…
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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