noun · feminine
lalias
Strong’sG2981
speech, talk, dialect
stem lali-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
λαλία, -ᾶς, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for דָּבָר, דִּבְרָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2981 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidlal-ee-ah'
talk
Fromfrom G2980;
King Jamessaying, speech.
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
poetry λᾰλ-ιή, ἡ, talk, chat, λαλιὰν ἀσκῆσαι, ἐπιτηδεῦσαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; common talk, report, LXX+2nd c.BC+; in good sense, discussion, ἡ περὶ βυβλίων λ. Refs 2nd c.BC+; speech, conversation, NT; matter, subject, LXX
2 loquacity, Refs 4th c.BC+
II a form of speech, dialect, LXX+NT; style, 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.
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 | lalias2×λαλιά | laliais |
| object accusative | lalian2×λαλιὰν | laliain |
| direct address vocative | laliar | laliair |
| of, belonging to genitive | laliau | laliaiu |
| to, for dative | lalia | laliai |
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
lalia 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
lalias“accent”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 26:73… ek autoiu asō, kai gar tas lalias su dēlon sin poiatō;… of them,” they said, “for your accent gives you away.”
Mark 14:70“accent”… kai gar Galilaios asō kai tas lalias su homoiazatō;… of them, for you too are a Galilean.”
lalian“what … say”objectaccusative singular2×
John 4:42“what … said”… legale hoti Ouketi dia tan san lalian pisteuanō; autois gar akouanē, kai oidanē …They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this …
John 8:43dia tinem tan lalian tan ēman ouk gnōskavō? hoti ouk …Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because …