ἈΛΑΛΑΞΑΙ, ἀλαλαξαι
ALALAXAI, alalaxai
Sounds Like: ah-lah-LAX-ai
Translations: to shout, to cry aloud, to wail, to clang
From the root: ἈΛΑΛΑΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes making a loud, often inarticulate, sound. It can refer to a battle cry, a shout of triumph, a wail of lamentation, or the clanging sound of cymbals or weapons. It implies a strong, often emotional, vocal or percussive expression.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G21 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 9:372
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΛΑΛΑΖΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΛΑΛΑΖΟΝ — wailing, crying aloud, clanging, sounding, a wailing, a clanging
- ἈΛΑΛΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ — wailing, lamenting, crying aloud, howling, those who wail, those who lament
- ἈΛΑΛΑΞΑΝΤΑΣ — having shouted, having cried out, having wailed, having yelled
- ἈΛΑΛΑΞΑΣΑΝ — having shouted, having cried out, having yelled, having wailed
- ἈΛΑΛΑΞΑΤΕ — cry aloud, wail, shout for joy, lament, shout
- ἈΛΑΛΑΞΟΥΣΙΝ — they will wail, they will lament, they will cry aloud, they will shout, they will clang
- ἈΛΑΛΑΞΩΜΕΝ — let us shout for joy, let us make a joyful noise, let us shout aloud
- ἘΛΕΛΕΚΤΟ — it had been cried out, it had been shouted, it had been wailed, it had been clanged
- ἨΛΑΛΑΞΑΝ — they shouted, they cried out, they wailed, they yelled
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