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G3455 μυκάομαι (mykáomai)
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Quick Definition

μυκάομαι v. I bellow, roar

Strong's Definition

from a presumed derivative of muzo ( to "moo"); to bellow (roar)

KJV Usage: roar

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

verb

14.77 · Physical Events and States · Sound

to bellow, to roar to produce a loud, roaring, or bellowing noise, typically of oxen, but also applicable to other large animals

REV 10:3

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

μυκάομαι, -ὥμαι; (fr. μύ or pd, the sound which a cow {Lat. mugio]), to low, bellow, prop. of horned 1. a forming, shap2. form; cattle (Hom., Aeschyl., Eur., Plat., al.); to roar, of a lion, Rev. x. 3.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

μυκάομαι mykaomai 1x

to low, bellow, as a bull; also, to roar, as a lion, Rev. 10:3*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

** μυκάομαι, -ῶμαι, in cl. chiefly poët.,

[in Sm.: Jb 6:5*;]

prop., of oxen (onomatop.), to low, bellow; of a lion, to roar: Re 10:3.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

μυκάομαι. This NT ἅπ. elp. (Rev 10%) is used of the ‘‘roar” of the sea in Kazbel το ϑ83-παντᾶι δὲ μελανθέι ῥοίζωι σπερχόμενος βαρὺ πόντος ἐνὶ σπήλυγξι βαθείαις μυκᾶτ᾽ ἐξ ἀδύτων. Cf. P Leid W**- 80 (ji/iii a.p.) (= II. p. 155) ἔσω προσβαλόμενος μύκησαι ὀλολυγμός (1. —dv), also 3% μύκησαι ὅσον δύνασαι.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

μυκάομαι (mukaomai) — to roar. μῡκάομαι, future -ήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἐμῡκησάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+] once in present participle, [Refs 8th c.BC+], elsewhere in Epic dialect aorist μύκον [ῠ], Epic dialect perfect μέμῡκα (also in [Refs 4th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐμεμύκειν or μεμύκειν [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—properly of oxen, low, bellow, ὁ δὲ μακρὰ μεμυκώς [ὁ ταῦρος] [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a calf, Theoc. [prev. cited]; of Heracles in agony, [NT+5th c.BC+]

2. of things, πύλαι μύκον οὐρανοῦ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a shield, μέγα δ᾽ ἀμφὶ σάκος μύκε δουρὸς ἀκωκῇ rang, [Refs]; of meat, ἀμφ᾽ ὀβελοῖσι μεμύκει bellowed upon the spits (a portent), [Refs 8th c.BC+]—An aorist active, [τυμπάνου] βαρὺ μυκήσαντος [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

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