STRONGS NUMBER G2981


Word Summary
lalia: talk
Original Word: λαλιά
Transliteration: lalia
Phonetic Spelling: (lal-ee-ah')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: talk
Meaning: talk
Strong's Concordance
saying, speech.

From laleo; talk -- saying, speech.

see GREEK laleo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2981: λαλιά

λαλιά, λαλιᾶς, (λάλος, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprchl. § 119 Anm. 21), in secular authors (from Aristophanes down) loquacity, talkativeness, talk (German Gerede) (see λαλέω, at the beginning); in a good sense conversation; in the N. T.

1. speech, equivalent to story: John 4:42.

2. dialect, mode of speech, pronunciation (Winer's Grammar, 23): Mark 14:70 Rec.; Matthew 26:73; speech which discloses the speaker's native country: hence of the speech by which Christ may be recognized as having come from heaven, John 8:43 (where cf. Meyer).