King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER G5520
Transliteration: cholaō
Phonetic Spelling: (khol-ah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be melancholy, mad, angry
Meaning: to be melancholy, mad, angry
χολάω, χόλῳ; (χολή, which see);
Word Summary
cholaō: to be melancholy, mad, angry
Original Word: χολάωTransliteration: cholaō
Phonetic Spelling: (khol-ah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be melancholy, mad, angry
Meaning: to be melancholy, mad, angry
Strong's Concordance
be angry. From chole; to be bilious, i.e. (by implication) irritable (enraged, "choleric") -- be angry.
see GREEK chole
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5520: χολάωχολάω, χόλῳ; (χολή, which see);
1. to be atrabilious; to be mad (Aristophanes nub. 833).
2. to be angry, enraged (for χολοῦμαι, more common in the earlier Greek writings from Homer down): τίνι, John 7:23 (3Macc. 3:1; Artemidorus Daldianus, Nicander, Mosch., Diogenes Laërt, others).