Click to donate today!
Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #2981 - λαλιά
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
- Book
- Word
- Parsing
λᾰλ-ιά,
poet. λᾰλ-ιή, ἡ,
I
1. talk, chat, λαλιὰν ἀσκῆσαι, ἐπιτηδεῦσαι, Ar. Nu. 931 (anap.), Ra. 1069; πέρας ποιεῖ λαλιᾶς Men. 66.3, cf. Hermesian. 7.78, AP 7.440 (Leon.); common talk, report, Plb. 3.20.5; τῆς εὐανδρίας τινός LXX 2 Maccabees 8:7; ἀχέων APl. 4.134 (Mel.); λαλιάν τινα ποιεῖν LXX Si. 42.11; in good sense, discussion, ἡ περὶ βυβλίων λ. Plb. 31.23.4, cf. 36.12.3; speech, conversation, John 8:43; matter, subject, LXX Ecclesiastes 3:18.
2. loquacity, Aeschin. 2.49, Thphr. Char. 7, Arist. Phgn. 806b18, Men. Sam. 46.
II a form of speech, dialect, Matthew 26:73; ἡ λ. σου ὡραία LXX Ca. 4.3; style, Phld. Rh. 2.27 S.
From its classical sense ";talkativeness,"; ";chatter,"; λαλιά comes to be used in the NT simply for ";speech,"; ";talk"; : cf. Joseph.B.J. ii. 8. 5 οὐδὲ κραυγή ποτε τὸν οἶκον, οὔτε θόρυβος μολύνει, τὰς δὲ λαλιὰς ἐν τάξει παραχωροῦσιν ἀλλήλοις. As showing however the danger accompanying much ";talking"; we may cite the early Christian letter, P Heid 6.13 (iv/A.D.) (= Selections, p. 126) ἵνα οὖν μὴ πολλὰ γράφω καὶ φλυραρήσω (l. φλυαρήσω), ἐν γὰρ [πο ]λλῇ λαλιᾷ (cf. Sirach 20:5) οὐκ ἐκφεύξοντ [αι ] (τ)ὴ (ν) ἁμαρτίη ̄ (cf. Proverbs 10:19), παρακαλ (ῶ) [ο ]ὖν, δέσποτα, ἵνα μνημον [ε ]ύῃς μοι εἰς τὰς ἁγίας σου εὐχάς, ";in order that I may not by much writing prove myself an idle babbler, for ‘in the multitude of words they shall not escape sin,’ I beseech you, master, to remember me in your holy prayers."; For a new literary reference for the adj. λάλος, see the fragment of an anthology, P Tebt I. 1.9 (c. B.C. 100) φιλέρημος δὲ νάπαισιν λάλος ἀνταμείβετ᾽ ἀχώ, ";chattering Echo, lover of solitude, answers in the dells"; (Edd.).
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
the Sixth Week after Easter