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G242 ἅλλομαι (hállomai)
Greek
Verb
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Quick Definition

I leap, bubble up

Strong's Definition

to jump; figuratively, to gush

Derivation: middle voice of apparently a primary verb;

KJV Usage: leap, spring up

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἅλλομαι; imperfect ἡλλόμην; aorist ἡλάμην and ἡλόμην (Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 108; (Winers Grammar, 82 (79); Buttmann, 54 (47))); to leap (Latinsalio): Act_3:8; Act_14:10 (Rec. ἥλλετο; G L T Tr WH ἥλατο); to spring up, gush up, of water, Joh_4:14 (as in Latinsalire, Vergil ecl. 5, 47; Suetonius, Octav. 82). (Compare: ἐξάλλομαι, ἐφάλλομαι.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἅλλομαι hallomai 3x to leap, jump, leap up, Act_3:8 ; Act_14:10 ; to spring, as water, Joh_4:14

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἅλλομαι , [in LXX for H6743 , H1801 pi ., etc.;] to leap: Act_3:8 ; Act_14:10 ; of water, to spring up , Joh_4:14 ( MM , VGT , s.v. ).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἅλλομαι [page 23] The verb is used in P Ryl II. 138 .15 (A.D. 34) of a thief s incursion, just as εἰσπηδάω : κατέλαβα τοῦτον διὰ νυκτὸς ἡλμένον εἰς κτλ . I detected him when under cover of night he had sprung into the farmstead (Edd.). It is recurrent in the curious document P Ryl I. 28 (iv/A.D.), on divination by quivering of various parts of the body.

Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon

ἅλλομαι [Etym: Root ΑΛ Lat. SALio] "to spring, leap, bound", of living beings, Hom. , etc.:—metaph. of things, ἆλτο ὀϊστός Il. ; "the eye, to throb", Theocr.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ἅλλομαι [in LXX for צָלַח, דָּלַג pi., etc. ;] to leap: Act.3:8 14:10; of water, to spring up, Jhn.4:14 (MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (3)

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