Word Summary
ōryomai: to roar, howl
Original Word: ὠρύομαιTransliteration: ōryomai
Phonetic Spelling: (o-roo'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to roar, howl
Meaning: to roar, howl
Strong's Concordance
roar.
Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to "roar" -- roar.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5612: ὠρύομαιὠρύομαι; deponent middle; the
Sept. for
שָׁאַג;
to roar, to howl, (of a lion, wolf, dog, and other beasts):
1 Peter 5:8 (
Judges 14:5;
Psalm 21:14 (); Jeremiah 2:15; Wis. 17:18; Theocritus, Plato, others); of men, to raise a loud and inarticulate cry: either of grief, Herodotus 3, 117; or of joy, id. 4, 75; to sing with a loud voice, Pindar Ol. 9, 163.