noun · masculine
aulos
Strong’sG836
a flute, pipe
stem aul-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
αὐλός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< ἄω, to blow), [in LXX chiefly for חָלִיל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G836 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidow-los'
a flute (as blown)
Fromfrom the same as G109;
King Jamespipe.
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
pipe, flute, clarionet, Refs 8th c.BC+; Ἔλυμος, i.e. Φρύγιος (which see), Refs 5th c.BC+; αὐ. γυναικήιος, ἀνδρήιος, Refs 5th c.BC+; αὐ. ἀνδρεῖοι, παιδικοί, παρθένιοι, Refs 4th c.BC+; αὐ. Ἐνυαλίου, i.e. a trumpet, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ὑπ᾽ αὐλοῦ to the sound of the flute, Refs 5th c.BC+ [same place]; πρὸς τὸν αὐ., ὑπὸ τὸν αὐ., Refs 5th c.BC+ pipes of the πηκτίς, Refs
2 hollow tube, pipe, groove, περόνη τέτυκτο αὐλοῖσιν διδύμοισι the buckle was furnished with two pipes or grooves (into which the tongue fitted), Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐγκέφαλος παρ᾽ αὐλὸν ἀνέδραμε spirted up beside the vizard (compare αὐλῶπις), or beside the socket of the spear-head into which the shaft fitted, Refs 8th c.BC+ means the jet of blood through the tube of the nostril; αὐλὸς ἐκ χαλκείου the smith's bellows, Refs 5th c.BC+; tube of the clepsydra, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 in animals, blow-hole of cetacea, Refs; funnel of a cuttle-fish, Refs; conus arteriosus in fishes,Refs; duct, probably in Refs
4 stadium (compare δίαυλος), Refs 3rd c.BC+
5 haulm of grain, Refs 3rd c.BC+
6 cow-bane, Cicuta virosa, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
7 εἶδος ἀκολάστου σχήματος, Refs
II razor-shell, ={σωλήν} (which see), Refs 3rd 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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | aulos1×αὐλὸς | aulois |
| object accusative | aulon | auloin |
| direct address vocative | aulor | auloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | aulou | auloiu |
| to, for dative | aulo | auloi |
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
aulo 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
aulos“flute”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Corinthians 14:7homōs teim apsucheim fōnan dōarōnteim, eite aulos eite kitharas, ean diastolan toi fthongoi …… of lifeless instruments, such as the flute or harp, how will anyone recognize …