adjective
alalētos
Strong’sG215
unutterable, that baffles words
stem alalēt-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† ἀ-λάλητος, -ον
(< λαλέω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G215 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
unspeakable, unutterable, variant in NT+6th c.BC+adverb -τως, as explanation of ἀλόγωςRefs
II ἀλάλητα· ξύλα ποταμόκλυστα, γομφώδη, Refs 5th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | alalētos | alalētas | alalētem | alalētois | alalētais | alalēteim |
| object accusative | alalēton | alalētan | alalētoin | alalētain | ||
| direct address vocative | alalētor | alalētar | alalētoir | alalētair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | alalētou | alalētau | alalēteu | alalētoiu | alalētaiu | alalēteiu |
| to, for dative | alalēto | alalēta | alalēte | alalētoi1×ἀλαλήτοις | alalētai | alalētei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
alalēt is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
alalētoi“too deep for words”to, fordative plural1×
Romans 8:26… alla autem tem pneumem huperentunchanatō stenagmoi alalētoi,… Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.