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Greek verb · G4814

συλλαλέω

syllaleosool-lal-eh'-o

to talk with

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

Concordance spelling: syllaléō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4814is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 4
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4814

to talk together, i.e. converse

The King James renders it: commune (confer, talk) with, speak among.

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

syllaleo is rendered "to talk with". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across four books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 17:3Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus.
  • The Greek text spells it four different ways.

The first use

Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus.

Matthew 17:3συλλαλοῦντες

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

Where the word stands

Three of the word's six uses are in Luke.

The other 23 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • having conferred1
  • he spoke with1
  • talking1
  • talking with1
  • they were speaking1
  • were talking1

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.

συλλαμβάνωsyllambanoto seize/conceive/helpUses16
συλλέγωsyllegoto collectUses8
συλλυπέωsyllypeobe grievedUses1
συλλογίζομαιsyllogizomaito discussUses1

All 6, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

4 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

  • συλλαλοῦντες2
  • συνελάλουν2
  • συλλαλήσας1
  • συνελάλησεν1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-IAI-3P
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2V-PAP-NPM
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM

Matthew

one use
  • Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus.

    Matthew 17:3

    • συλλαλοῦντεςsullalountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: talking

Mark

one use
  • And Elijah and Moses appeared before them, talking with Jesus.

    Mark 9:4

    • συλλαλοῦντεςsullalountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: talking with

Luke

three uses
  • All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

    Luke 4:36

    • συνελάλουνsunelalounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were speaking
  • Suddenly two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with Jesus.

    Luke 9:30

    • συνελάλουνsunelalounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were talking
  • And Judas went to discuss with the chief priests and temple officers how he might betray Jesus to them.

    Luke 22:4

    • συνελάλησενsunelalesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he spoke with

Acts

one use
  • Then Festus conferred with his council and replied, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”

    Acts 25:12

    • συλλαλήσαςsullalesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having conferred

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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