alalos

Strong’sG216

unable to speak

stem alal-3 times in the New Testament2 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.

ἄ-λαλος, -ον

(< λάλος, talkative), [in LXX: Ps 31:18 (אָלַם ni.) Ps 38:13 (אִלֵּם)*;]

dumb, speechless: Mk 7:37 9:17, 25.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G216 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidal'-al-os

mute

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G2980;

King Jamesdumb.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἄλᾰλος, ον,
speechless, dumb, probably in NT+4th c.BC+; κείμεσθα ἄ. Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

mute3×

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	alalos	alalas	alalem2×ἄλαλον	alalois	alalais	alaleim
object accusative	alalon	alalan		alaloin1×ἀλάλους	alalain
direct address vocative	alalor	alalar		alaloir	alalair
of, belonging to genitive	alalou	alalau	alaleu	alaloiu	alalaiu	alaleiu
to, for dative	alalo	alala	alale	alaloi	alalai	alalei

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

alalstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

alal 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

alalem“mute”subject or objectdirect singular2×

Mark 9:17… huion mu pros sin, echarōnton pneumem alalem;… has a spirit that makes him mute.

Mark 9:25… pneume te akatharte legarōntos aute; Tem alalem kai kōfem pneumem, mis epitassamō si, …… the unclean spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” He said, “I command you …

alaloin“mute”objectaccusative plural1×

Mark 7:37… kai toin kōfoin poiatō akouarō kai alaloin lalarō.… even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”