Strong G103ᾄδω
to sing
- Transliteration
- adō
- Pronunciation
- ad'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to sing: - sing.
Detailed definition
ᾄδω (Attic form of Ion. and poët. ἀείδω),
[in LXX chiefly for שִׁיר;]
to sing,
__(a) intrans., with dative (MM, VGT, see word), of praise to God: Eph.5:19, Col.3:16;
__(b) trans., with cogn. accusative: ᾠδὴν, Rev.5:9 14:3 15:3.
† (AS)
[in LXX chiefly for שִׁיר;]
to sing,
__(a) intrans., with dative (MM, VGT, see word), of praise to God: Eph.5:19, Col.3:16;
__(b) trans., with cogn. accusative: ᾠδὴν, Rev.5:9 14:3 15:3.
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G103 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- sing5
First verses
- Ephesians 5:19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
- Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
- Revelation 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
- Revelation 14:3And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
- Revelation 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀείδω,
Ionic dialect and poetry form used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)], and sometimes in Trag. and Comedy texts (even in trimeter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 16, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 188; intetram., 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 305))], also in Ionic dialect Prose; contraction ᾄδω (also [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 45, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus), Trag., 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, etc.)]: imperfect ἤειδον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”)], Epic dialect ἄειδον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, etc.)]; Trag. and Attic dialect ᾖδον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 761, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21)]: future ἀείσομαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.352, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 943, but ᾄσομαι “Hymni Homerici” 6.2, 32.19, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 243, and alwaysin _Attic dialect_ (ᾄσεις, σουσιν in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1297, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 666d are corrupt))]; rarely in active form ἀείσω, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 11, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 4, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1243 (_Laconian dialect_))], and late Poets, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 13.47 (in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 681 ἀείδω is restored by Elmsl.))]; still more rarely ᾄσω, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 12.13, Men.Rh. p.381S., 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Orationes” 1.6)]; Doric dialect ᾀσεῦμαι[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.38, ᾀσῶ [prev. author] 1.145)]: aorist ἤεισα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 23.4, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 3.1, _Epic dialect_ ἄεισα [ᾰ] 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.411; ἄεισον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 513 (Lyric poetry); ἀείσατε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 115 (Lyric poetry); ᾖσα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1371, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 21b:)] —middle, aorist ἀεισάμην (in active sense) [Refs (“PMag.Lond.” 47.43, _imperative_ ἀείσεο “Hymni Homerici” 17.1 (nisi to be read ἀείσεο))]:—passive, ἀείδομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)]: poetry imperfect ἀείδετο[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus:)]aorist ᾔσθην, see below 11.1: perfect ᾖσμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.11. (ἀϝείδω, compare αὐδή, ὑδέω.) [ᾰ)]: but ᾱ for the sake of meter [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.519, “Hymni Homerici” 12.1, 27.1, “Il.Parv..” 1, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 4, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.41, etc.])]:— sing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.604, etc.)]: hence of all kinds of vocal sounds, crow as cocks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Smp..” 223c;)] hoot as owls, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1000)]; croak as frogs, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 835b3, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 3.5, etc.)]; οἱ τέττιγες χαμόθεν ᾄσονται Stes. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1412a23)]:—of other sounds, twang, of the bow-string, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.411)]; whistle, of the wind through a tree, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus “fragment” 1.8)]; ring, of a stone when struck, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.26:)] —proverbial, πρὶν νενικηκέναι ᾄδειν 'to crow too soon', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 164c.)] —Constr.:—ἀ. τινί sing to one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.346)]; also, vie with one in singing, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 8.6)]; ᾄ. πρὸς αὐλὸν ἢ λύραν sing to.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Pr..” 918a23; ὑπ᾽ αὐλοῖς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.41c:—ἀείσας.. χαίρειν Δημοκλέα, poetry for εἰπών, “epigram Gr.” 237.7 (from Smyrna).)]
II transitive,
II.1 with accusative of things, sing of, chant, μῆνιν ἄειδε[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.1; παιήονα 1.473)]; κλέα ἀνδρῶν, νόστον,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (9.189, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.326; τὸν Βοιώτιον νόμον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 966: with _genitive_ (i.e. μέλος))], sing an air of.., Φρυνίχου[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 269, compare 1225: _absolutely_, ἀ. ἀμφί τινος)] to sing in one's praise, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.266; ἀμφί τινα 7th c.BC: Terpander Lyricus 2, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 513; εἴς τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1243)]: later, simply ={καλεῖν}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.28)]:—passive, of songs, to be sung, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.35; τὰ λεχθέντα καὶ ᾀσέντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 205e)]; ᾆσμα καλῶς ᾀσθέν, opposed to λόγος καλῶς ῥηθείς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.55)]; ᾄδεται λόγος the story runs, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.189.)]
II.2 of persons, places, etc., sing, praise, celebrate, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 6.6, etc.:)] —passive, ἀείδεται θρέψαισ᾽ ἥρωας is celebrated as the nurse of heroes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.25, compare 5.24.)]
II.3 passive, to be filled with song, ἀείσετο πᾶν τέμενος.. θαλίαις[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).76.)]
Ionic dialect and poetry form used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)], and sometimes in Trag. and Comedy texts (even in trimeter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 16, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 188; intetram., 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 305))], also in Ionic dialect Prose; contraction ᾄδω (also [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 45, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus), Trag., 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, etc.)]: imperfect ἤειδον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”)], Epic dialect ἄειδον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, etc.)]; Trag. and Attic dialect ᾖδον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 761, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21)]: future ἀείσομαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.352, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 943, but ᾄσομαι “Hymni Homerici” 6.2, 32.19, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 243, and alwaysin _Attic dialect_ (ᾄσεις, σουσιν in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1297, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 666d are corrupt))]; rarely in active form ἀείσω, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 11, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 4, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1243 (_Laconian dialect_))], and late Poets, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 13.47 (in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 681 ἀείδω is restored by Elmsl.))]; still more rarely ᾄσω, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 12.13, Men.Rh. p.381S., 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Orationes” 1.6)]; Doric dialect ᾀσεῦμαι[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.38, ᾀσῶ [prev. author] 1.145)]: aorist ἤεισα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 23.4, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 3.1, _Epic dialect_ ἄεισα [ᾰ] 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.411; ἄεισον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 513 (Lyric poetry); ἀείσατε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 115 (Lyric poetry); ᾖσα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1371, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 21b:)] —middle, aorist ἀεισάμην (in active sense) [Refs (“PMag.Lond.” 47.43, _imperative_ ἀείσεο “Hymni Homerici” 17.1 (nisi to be read ἀείσεο))]:—passive, ἀείδομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)]: poetry imperfect ἀείδετο[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus:)]aorist ᾔσθην, see below 11.1: perfect ᾖσμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.11. (ἀϝείδω, compare αὐδή, ὑδέω.) [ᾰ)]: but ᾱ for the sake of meter [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.519, “Hymni Homerici” 12.1, 27.1, “Il.Parv..” 1, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 4, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.41, etc.])]:— sing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.604, etc.)]: hence of all kinds of vocal sounds, crow as cocks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Smp..” 223c;)] hoot as owls, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1000)]; croak as frogs, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 835b3, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 3.5, etc.)]; οἱ τέττιγες χαμόθεν ᾄσονται Stes. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1412a23)]:—of other sounds, twang, of the bow-string, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.411)]; whistle, of the wind through a tree, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus “fragment” 1.8)]; ring, of a stone when struck, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.26:)] —proverbial, πρὶν νενικηκέναι ᾄδειν 'to crow too soon', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 164c.)] —Constr.:—ἀ. τινί sing to one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.346)]; also, vie with one in singing, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 8.6)]; ᾄ. πρὸς αὐλὸν ἢ λύραν sing to.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Pr..” 918a23; ὑπ᾽ αὐλοῖς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.41c:—ἀείσας.. χαίρειν Δημοκλέα, poetry for εἰπών, “epigram Gr.” 237.7 (from Smyrna).)]
II transitive,
II.1 with accusative of things, sing of, chant, μῆνιν ἄειδε[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.1; παιήονα 1.473)]; κλέα ἀνδρῶν, νόστον,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (9.189, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.326; τὸν Βοιώτιον νόμον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 966: with _genitive_ (i.e. μέλος))], sing an air of.., Φρυνίχου[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 269, compare 1225: _absolutely_, ἀ. ἀμφί τινος)] to sing in one's praise, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.266; ἀμφί τινα 7th c.BC: Terpander Lyricus 2, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 513; εἴς τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1243)]: later, simply ={καλεῖν}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.28)]:—passive, of songs, to be sung, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.35; τὰ λεχθέντα καὶ ᾀσέντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 205e)]; ᾆσμα καλῶς ᾀσθέν, opposed to λόγος καλῶς ῥηθείς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.55)]; ᾄδεται λόγος the story runs, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.189.)]
II.2 of persons, places, etc., sing, praise, celebrate, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 6.6, etc.:)] —passive, ἀείδεται θρέψαισ᾽ ἥρωας is celebrated as the nurse of heroes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.25, compare 5.24.)]
II.3 passive, to be filled with song, ἀείσετο πᾶν τέμενος.. θαλίαις[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).76.)]