adjective
chōlos
Strong’sG5560
lame, deprived of a foot
stem chōl-14 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books6 of 26 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Lame, unable to walk properly because of a disabled foot or leg 1234. The word is used of people whose feet or legs do not work as they should, described as limping or "halting" in gait 23, and covers both those completely deprived of a foot and those simply crippled or maimed in that part of the body 124.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G5560 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkho-los'
"halt", i.e. limping
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamescripple, halt, lame.
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
lame in the feet, halting, limping, with accusative, χωλὸς δ᾽ ἕτερον πόδα Refs 8th c.BC+; also with dative, σκέλει χωλός Refs 1st c.AD+: later also of the hand, like{κυλλός}, χωλὸς τὴν χεῖρα Refs 5th c.BC+
II metaphorically, defective, φύσις Refs 5th c.BC+; one-sided, Refs; βασιλεία Oracle texts cited in Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 of metre, especially of the χωλίαμβος (which see), halting, μέτρον Refs 4th c.BC+; also of a trochaic metre, Refs 3rd c.AD+
II.3 ἀείδειν χωλά, of a 'lame tale', 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chōlos2×χωλὸς | chōlas | chōlem1×χωλὸν | chōlois4×χωλοὶ | chōlais | chōleim |
| object accusative | chōlon2×χωλόν | chōlan | chōloin4×χωλούς | chōlain | ||
| direct address vocative | chōlor | chōlar | chōloir | chōlair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | chōlou | chōlau | chōleu | chōloiu1×χωλῶν | chōlaiu | chōleiu |
| to, for dative | chōlo | chōla | chōle | chōloi | chōlai | chōlei |
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
chōl 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.
14 occurrences, every one of them listed
chōlos“lame”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 3:2kai tinos andros chōlos ek koiliau mētērau autou huparcharōntos bastazote, …And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to …
Acts 14:8… adunatos en Lustrei toi podoi kathote, chōlos ek koiliau mētērau autou, hos oudepote …… crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
chōlon“lame”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 18:8… eiserchara eis tan zōan kullon ē chōlon, ē duo cheirain ē duo podoin …… you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and …
Mark 9:45… atō sin eiserchara eis tan zōan chōlon ē toin duo podoin echarōnton balira …… better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and …
chōlem“lame”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Hebrews 12:13… toi podoi vu, hina mē tem chōlem ektrapiteia, iiteia de mallon.… for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather …
chōlois“lame”subjectnominative plural4×
Matthew 11:5tuflois anablepalō kai chōlois peripatalō, leprois katharizolō kai kōfois akoualō, …The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the …
Matthew 21:14Kai proserchala auto tuflois kai chōlois en te hiere, kai therapeuata autoin.The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple …
Luke 7:22… heim horava kai akouava; tuflois anablepalō, chōlois peripatalō, leprois katharizolō, kōfois akoualō, nekrois …… heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the …
Acts 8:7… mega exerchole, pollois de paraluorēntois kai chōlois therapeuila;… and many of the paralyzed and lame were healed.
chōloin“lame”objectaccusative plural4×
Matthew 15:30… pollois echarōntois meta heautoiu kōfoin, tufloin, chōloin, kulloin, kai heteroin polloin, kai riptala …… crowds came to Him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute …
Matthew 15:31… bleparōntoin kōfoin lalarōntoin kulloin hugioin kai chōloin peripatarōntoin kai tufloin bleparōntoin; kai doxazala …… mute speaking, the crippled restored, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And …
Luke 14:13… hotan dochan poiaseiō, kalasōr ptōchoin, anapēroin, chōloin, tufloin;… invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,
Luke 14:21… ptōchoin kai anapēroin kai tufloin kai chōloin eisagasar hōde.… the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
chōloiu“lame”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
John 5:3… houtai katakeiote plēthem toiu asthenarōntoiu, tufloiu, chōloiu, xēroiu.… of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.