Quick Definition
ἅλλομαι v. I leap, bubble up
Strong's Definition
middle voice of apparently a primary verb; to jump; figuratively, to gush
KJV Usage: leap, spring up
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor. ἡλάμην | ἐξάλλομαι · ἐφάλλομαι · σαλεύω · σάλος · ἀσαλευτος
15.238 · Linear Movement · Jump, Leap
to leap, to jump to leap or to jump into the air
14.30 · Physical Events and States · Events Involving Liquids and Dry Masses
to bubble up, to well up the action of water forming bubbles and welling up from underneath the ground In the NT ἅλλομαι[b] occurs only in the figurative context of JHN 4:14.
In some languages expressions referring to the flowing of water from a spring depend upon the extent or continuity of such a flow. If the spring is a perennial one, that is to say, if it flows all the time, it may be designated by one term, while if it is intermittent, that is, flows only during the rainy season, it may be referred to by quite a different term. There may also be distinctions as to whether the water flows out and then down or whether it actually comes up from below the surface. In JHN 4:14 the direction of flow is not important, but it is important to use a term which would indicate continuous flowing.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄλλομαι; impf. ἡλλόμην ; aor. ἡλάμην and ἡλόμην (Bttm. Ausf. Spr. ii. p. 108; [W. 82 (79); B. 54 (47)]); to leap (Lat. salio): Acts iii. 8; xiv. 10 (Rec. ἥλλετο: GLT Tr WH jaro); to spring up, gush up, of water, Jn. iy. 14, (as in Lat. salire, Verg. ecl. 5, 47; Suet. Octay. 82). [Comp.: e&, ἐφ-άλλομαι.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἅλλομαι hallomai 3x
to leap, jump, leap up, Acts 3:8; 14:10; to spring, as water, Jn. 4:14*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἅλλομαι
[in LXX for צָלַח, דָּלַג pi., etc.;]
to leap: Ac 3:8 14:10; of water, to spring up, Jo 4:14 (MM, VGT, s.v.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἅλλομαι. The verb is used in P Ryl 11. 13815 (a.p. 34) of a thiefs incursion, just as εἰσπηδάω : κατέλαβα τοῦτον διὰ νυκτὸς ἡλμένον εἰς KTA. “41 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.p.), on divination by ‘‘quivering”’ of various parts of the body.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἅλλομαι (hallomai) — to spring. ἅλλομαι, [Refs]: imperfect ἡλλόμην[Refs 5th c.BC+]future ἁλοῦμαι (ὑπερ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+], Doric dialect ἁλεῦμ αι[Refs 3rd c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἡλάμην[Refs 5th c.BC+]subjunctive or optative, participle ἁλάμενος [1st pers. syllable long] [Refs], infinitive ἅλασθαι[Refs 2nd c.AD+], (καθ-) variant [Refs 2nd c.AD+]aorist 2 ἡλόμην, rare in indicative, variant [Refs 5th c.BC+], (ἐξ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+], (ἐν-) variant [Refs 4th c.BC+]subjunctive ἅληται [ᾰ] [Refs 8th c.BC+], infinitive ἁλέσθαι[Refs 3rd c.AD+], etc., participle ἁλόμενος [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; to aorist 2 also belong Epic dialect [Refs], subjunctive ἅλεται[Refs 8th c.BC+]participle ἄλμενος only in compounds, but ἅλμενος[Refs 2nd c.AD+]: (sal-, cf. Latin sal-io):— spring, leap, properly of living beings, μὴ.. ἐς τεῖχος ἅληται[Refs 8th c.BC+] —ἅλλεσθαι ἐπί τινι leap upon or against,[Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive, ἆλτο θέειν, πέτεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. with accusative, leap over, βόθρον[Refs 2nd c.AD+]
3. of things, ἆλτο ὀϊστός[Refs 8th c.BC+]; of sound, ἀπὸ λείων ἠχὼ ἁλλομένη[Refs 5th c.BC+]; of parts of body, twitch, quiver, throb, ἅλλεται ὀφθαλμός[Refs 4th c.BC+]