Word Summary
alalos: mute, speechless
Original Word: ἄλαλοςTransliteration: alalos
Phonetic Spelling: (al'-al-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: mute, speechless
Meaning: mute, speechless
Strong's Concordance
dumb, mute, speechless
From a (as a negative particle) and laleo; mute -- dumb.
see GREEK a
see GREEK laleo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 216: ἄλαλοςἄλαλος, (
λάλος, talking, talkative) (from
Aeschylus on),
speechless, dumb, lacking the faculty of speech:
Mark 7:37;
πνεῦμα,
Mark 9:17, 25, because the defects of demoniacs were thought to proceed from the nature and peculiarities of the demons by which they were possessed. (the
Sept. Psalm 37:14 (); Psalm 30:19 (); ἀλάλου καί κακοῦ πνεύματος πλήρης, Plutarch, de orac. def. 51, p. 438 b.)