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Greek verb · G1255

διαλαλέω

dialaleodee-al-al-eh'-o

to talk with; to talk over

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: dialaléō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1255is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1255

to talk throughout a company, i.e. converse or (genitive case) publish

The King James renders it: commune, noise abroad.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

dialaleo is rendered "to talk with; to talk over". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to talk with".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:65All their neighbors were filled with awe, and people throughout the hill country of Judea were talking about these events.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

All their neighbors were filled with awe, and people throughout the hill country of Judea were talking about these events.

Luke 1:65διελαλεῖτο

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to talk with, and to talk over.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to talk withπρός, Luk.6:11.Tagged as
  • were discussing1
WhereLuke 6:11But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what…
to talk overpass., Luk.1:65.† (AS)Tagged as
  • were being talked about1
WhereLuke 1:65All their neighbors were filled with awe, and people throughout the hill country of Judea were…

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

διαλογίζομαιdialogizomaito discussUses16
διαλογισμόςdialogismosreasoningUses14
διαλέγομαιdialegomaito disputeUses13
διάλεκτοςdialektoslanguageUses6
διαλύωdialyoto disperseUses1
διαλείπωdialeipoto stopUses1
διαλλάσσωdiallassobe reconciledUses1

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • διελαλεῖτο1
  • διελάλουν1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IAI-3P
  • verb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IPI-3S

Luke

two uses
  • All their neighbors were filled with awe, and people throughout the hill country of Judea were talking about these events.

    Luke 1:65

    • διελαλεῖτοdielaleitoverb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: were being talked about
  • But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

    Luke 6:11

    • διελάλουνdielalounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were discussing

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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