Word Summary
lalia: talk
Original Word: λαλιάTransliteration: 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: λαλιάλαλιά,
λαλιᾶς,
ἡ (
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).