Strong's G1814: ἐξάλλομαι (exállomai) Meaning

Quick Definition

ἐξάλλομαι v. I leap up

Strong's Definition

to spring forth

Derivation: from G1537 (ἐκ) and G242 (ἅλλομαι);

KJV Usage: leap up

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἐξάλλομαι (G1814)

verb | ἅλλομαι

15.240 · Linear Movement · Jump, Leap

to jump up, to leap up to leap up to a standing position It is possible that in ACT 3:8 the paralyzed man actually jumped up from the ground, but it is more likely that the reference is to the rapidity with which he got onto his feet.

ACT 3:8

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἐξάλλομαι; to leap up: Act_3:8. (Xenophon, Cyril 7, 1, 27, et others; the Sept. Isa_55:12.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἐξάλλομαι exallomai 1x

to leap or spring up or forth, Acts 3:8*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἐξ-άλλομαι

[in LXX for קָלַל (Hb 1:8), etc. ;]

to leap up: Ac 3:8.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἐξάλλομαι [page 221] On this medical term, peculiar to Luke in the NT ( Act_3:8 ), see Hobart, p. 36 f.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἐξάλλομαι (exallomai) — to leap up. ἐξάλλομαι, future -ᾰλοῦμαι[LXX]: aorist -ηλόμην[Refs 5th c.BC+] (Lyric poetry), -ηλάμην [Refs 2nd c.AD+], Doric dialect -άλατο[Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Epic dialect aorist participle -άλμενος (see. below):—leap out of or forth from, ἐξάλλεται αὐλῆς, of a lion, [Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist participle ἐξάλμενος, absolutely, [Refs] springing out from the midst of..,[Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐ. κατὰ τοῦ τείχους leap down off.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, jump, hop off, [NT+5th c.BC+]; ὦ δαῖμον, ἵν᾽ ἐξήλο; to what point didst thou leap forth, i.e. to what misery hast thou come ? [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of fish, leap out of the water, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

2. start from its socket, be dislocated, of a limb, ἐ. ἔξαλσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a broken bone, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; of wheels, start from the axle, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. leap up, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; of horses, rear, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. ἐξάλλετο γαστήρ swelled, became distended, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

II.3. metaphorically, ἐ. πρός τι fly off to, have recourse to, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ἐξ-άλλομαι [in LXX for קָלַל (Hab.1:8), etc. ;] to leap up: Act.3:8.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

3:8

G1814 ἐξάλλομαι (exállomai)