Lexicon alalos: mute, speechless Original Word: ἄλαλος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: alalos Phonetic Spelling: (al'-al-os) Short Definition: unable to speak Definition: unable to speak or articulate; speechless. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and lalos (talkative) Definitionmute, speechless NASB Translationmute (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 216: ἄλαλοςἄλαλος, ( λάλος, talking, talkative) (from Aeschylus on), speechless, dumb, lacking the faculty of speech: Mark 7:37; πνεῦμα, Mark 9:17, 25, because the defects of demoniacs were thought to proceed from the nature and peculiarities of the demons by which they were possessed. (the Sept. Psalm 37:14 (); Psalm 30:19 (); ἀλάλου καί κακοῦ πνεύματος πλήρης, Plutarch, de orac. def. 51, p. 438 b.)
Strong's dumb, mute, speechless From a (as a negative particle) and laleo; mute -- dumb. see GREEK a see GREEK laleo |
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