Strong G3656ὁμιλέω
to talk
- Transliteration
- homileō
- Pronunciation
- hom-il-eh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G3658; to be in company with that is (by implication) to converse: - commune talk.
Detailed definition
ὁμιλέω, -ῶ
(ὅμιλος), [in LXX: Pro.5:19 (רָוָה pi.), al.;]
to be in company with, consort with; hence, to converse with: Act.20:11; with dative, Act.24:26; before πρός, Luk.24:14-15.†
(AS)
(ὅμιλος), [in LXX: Pro.5:19 (רָוָה pi.), al.;]
to be in company with, consort with; hence, to converse with: Act.20:11; with dative, Act.24:26; before πρός, Luk.24:14-15.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3656 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- commune2
- talk2
First verses
- Luke 24:14And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
- Luke 24:15And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
- Acts 20:11When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
- Acts 24:26He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
ὁμῑλ-έω,
Aeolic dialect 3rd.pers. singular present ὀμίλλει [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 61.29)] Lobel, to be in company with, consort with, μνηστῆρσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.21, +others, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 500c, etc.: with Preps., ἠὲ μετὰ Τρώεσσιν ὁμιλέοι ἦ μετ᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.86, compare 834; ἐνὶ πρώτοισιν ὁ. 18.194, compare 535)]; πὰρ παύροισι.. ὁμιλεῖς consortest with few, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.383.)]
2 absolutely, μηδ᾽ ἄλλοθ᾽ ὁμιλήσαντες joining in company, [Refs (4.684)]; περὶ νεκρὸν ὁ. throng about the corpse, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.641, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.19.)]
II in hostile sense, join battle with, ὁμιλέομεν Δαναοῖσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.523, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.265; μετὰ τοῖσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.502; σὺν Λαπίθαισί σε Κενταύρων ὁμιλῆσαι δορί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 792 (Lyric poetry))]: absolutely, join battle, εὖτ᾽ ἂν πρῶτον ὁμιλήσωσι φάλαγγες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.158.)]
III of social intercourse, hold converse with, be acquainted with, associate with, τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.130; κακοῖς ἀνδράσιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 753 (troch.))]; ἀλλήλοις, μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων, πρὸς ἀλλήλους, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 188d, “Plt.” 272c, “Lg.” 886c; τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ πρὸς τοὺς ἐρωμένους ὁ. [prev. author] “Phdr.” 252d)]; so of political intercourse, εἰθισμένος πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἴσου ὁ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.77; ἡμῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἴσου ὁ. [prev. author] 3.11)]; of scholars, ὁ. τινί frequent a teacher's lectures, be his pupil, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.15, 39)]; ὁ. τῇ Ὁμήρου ποιήσει to be familiar with it, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pr.Im.” 26)]; compare ὁμιλητής.
III.2 to be friends, οἱ μάλιστά τινι ὁμιλέοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.99.)]
III.3 speak to, address, harangue, with dative, [NT+2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.4.7: _absolutely_, ὑπερηφάνως ὁ. [prev. author] 16.34.6; πρὸς ἵππον 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 15.2; πρὸς ἀλλήλους NT.Luke.24.14)]: generally, speak, converse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.116 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; κατά τινα διάλεκτον 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.179; Ἑβραϊστί 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 11.5.6)]; ὁ. τινὶ περί τινος talk to.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 928.5 (2nd c.AD))]:—passive, perfect participle ὡμιλημένος used in conversation, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.27S.)]
IV of marriage or sexual intercourse, γυναιξὶ καὶ παρθένοις ὁ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.25; παιδικοῖς [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.1.24, etc.; σὺν τοῖς φιλτάτοις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 367, compare 1185; cf. Moer. p.276 P.)]
V of things or business which one has to do with, attend to, busy oneself with, ὁμιλεῖν ἀρχῇ, πολέμῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.55, 70; καινοῖς πράγμασιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1399, compare ὁμιλία 1.4)]; φιλοσοφίᾳ, γυμναστικῇ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 496b, 410c; παιδείᾳ “OGI” 505.7 (from Aezani))]; ἐμ Μούσαις [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work]282.16 (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus Mae., 3rd c.BC))]; πονηροτάτοις σώμασιν ὁ., of a physician, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 408d)]; also like{χρῆσθαι}, meet with, enjoy, ὁ. τύχαις to be in good fortune, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.61; εὐτυχίᾳ ὁ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 354 (Lyric poetry))]; but also,
V.2 of the things themselves, πλαγίαις φρένεσσιν ὄλβος οὐ πάντα χρόνον ὁ. does not consort with a crooked mind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 3.6, compare “P.” 7.6)]; κυλίκων νεῖμεν ἐμοὶ τέρψιν ὁμιλεῖν gave me their delight to keep me company, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1201 (Lyric poetry); πλοῦτος καὶ δειλοῖσιν ἀνθρώπων ὁμιλεῖ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.51, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 940: in physical sense, ὁ ὁ βραχίων τῷ κοίλῳ τῆς ὠμοπλάτης πλάγιος)] fils obliquely into.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 1)]; of a plaster, to be in contact, ὁ. τῷ νοσέοντι μέρει [Refs ([prev. author] “περὶ ἰητροῦ” 3.)]
VI deal with a man, bear oneself towards him, καλῶς ὁ. τινί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 4.9; πρός τινα [prev. author] 2.24; τῷ δήμῳ πρὸς χάριν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 35.3)] (so in passive, συνειθισμένοι ὑπὸ πάντων πρὸς χάριν ὁμιλεῖσθαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.62 O.))]; ταῦτα ἡ ἐμὴ νεότης.. ἐς τὴν Πελοποννησίων δύναμιν.. ὡμίλησε these were the achievements of my youth in intercourse with their power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.17.)]
VII of place, come into, enter, visit, with dative, διαβάντες τὸν Ἅλυν.. ὡμίλησαν τῇ Φρυγίῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.26, compare 214, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 7.8)]; βαρεῖα χώρᾳ τῇδ᾽ ὁ. heavily will I visit this land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 720; ὁ. παρ᾽ οἰκείαις ἀρούραις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.19; ὁ. τοιᾷδε πόλει 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 292; poetry also ὁ. ἄνθεσιν 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 47)]:—passive, τὰ ὁμιλούμενα τῶν χωρίων most frequented, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 1.16.)]
VIII ἐκτὸς ὁμιλεῖ (i.e. τῶν ξυντρόφων ὀργῶν) he wanders from his senses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 640 (Lyric poetry).)]
Aeolic dialect 3rd.pers. singular present ὀμίλλει [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 61.29)] Lobel, to be in company with, consort with, μνηστῆρσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.21, +others, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 500c, etc.: with Preps., ἠὲ μετὰ Τρώεσσιν ὁμιλέοι ἦ μετ᾽ Ἀχαιοῖς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.86, compare 834; ἐνὶ πρώτοισιν ὁ. 18.194, compare 535)]; πὰρ παύροισι.. ὁμιλεῖς consortest with few, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.383.)]
2 absolutely, μηδ᾽ ἄλλοθ᾽ ὁμιλήσαντες joining in company, [Refs (4.684)]; περὶ νεκρὸν ὁ. throng about the corpse, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.641, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.19.)]
II in hostile sense, join battle with, ὁμιλέομεν Δαναοῖσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.523, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.265; μετὰ τοῖσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.502; σὺν Λαπίθαισί σε Κενταύρων ὁμιλῆσαι δορί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 792 (Lyric poetry))]: absolutely, join battle, εὖτ᾽ ἂν πρῶτον ὁμιλήσωσι φάλαγγες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.158.)]
III of social intercourse, hold converse with, be acquainted with, associate with, τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.130; κακοῖς ἀνδράσιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 753 (troch.))]; ἀλλήλοις, μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων, πρὸς ἀλλήλους, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 188d, “Plt.” 272c, “Lg.” 886c; τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ πρὸς τοὺς ἐρωμένους ὁ. [prev. author] “Phdr.” 252d)]; so of political intercourse, εἰθισμένος πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἴσου ὁ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.77; ἡμῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἴσου ὁ. [prev. author] 3.11)]; of scholars, ὁ. τινί frequent a teacher's lectures, be his pupil, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.15, 39)]; ὁ. τῇ Ὁμήρου ποιήσει to be familiar with it, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pr.Im.” 26)]; compare ὁμιλητής.
III.2 to be friends, οἱ μάλιστά τινι ὁμιλέοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.99.)]
III.3 speak to, address, harangue, with dative, [NT+2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.4.7: _absolutely_, ὑπερηφάνως ὁ. [prev. author] 16.34.6; πρὸς ἵππον 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 15.2; πρὸς ἀλλήλους NT.Luke.24.14)]: generally, speak, converse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.116 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; κατά τινα διάλεκτον 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.179; Ἑβραϊστί 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 11.5.6)]; ὁ. τινὶ περί τινος talk to.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 928.5 (2nd c.AD))]:—passive, perfect participle ὡμιλημένος used in conversation, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.27S.)]
IV of marriage or sexual intercourse, γυναιξὶ καὶ παρθένοις ὁ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.25; παιδικοῖς [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.1.24, etc.; σὺν τοῖς φιλτάτοις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 367, compare 1185; cf. Moer. p.276 P.)]
V of things or business which one has to do with, attend to, busy oneself with, ὁμιλεῖν ἀρχῇ, πολέμῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.55, 70; καινοῖς πράγμασιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1399, compare ὁμιλία 1.4)]; φιλοσοφίᾳ, γυμναστικῇ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 496b, 410c; παιδείᾳ “OGI” 505.7 (from Aezani))]; ἐμ Μούσαις [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work]282.16 (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus Mae., 3rd c.BC))]; πονηροτάτοις σώμασιν ὁ., of a physician, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 408d)]; also like{χρῆσθαι}, meet with, enjoy, ὁ. τύχαις to be in good fortune, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.61; εὐτυχίᾳ ὁ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 354 (Lyric poetry))]; but also,
V.2 of the things themselves, πλαγίαις φρένεσσιν ὄλβος οὐ πάντα χρόνον ὁ. does not consort with a crooked mind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 3.6, compare “P.” 7.6)]; κυλίκων νεῖμεν ἐμοὶ τέρψιν ὁμιλεῖν gave me their delight to keep me company, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1201 (Lyric poetry); πλοῦτος καὶ δειλοῖσιν ἀνθρώπων ὁμιλεῖ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.51, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 940: in physical sense, ὁ ὁ βραχίων τῷ κοίλῳ τῆς ὠμοπλάτης πλάγιος)] fils obliquely into.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 1)]; of a plaster, to be in contact, ὁ. τῷ νοσέοντι μέρει [Refs ([prev. author] “περὶ ἰητροῦ” 3.)]
VI deal with a man, bear oneself towards him, καλῶς ὁ. τινί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 4.9; πρός τινα [prev. author] 2.24; τῷ δήμῳ πρὸς χάριν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 35.3)] (so in passive, συνειθισμένοι ὑπὸ πάντων πρὸς χάριν ὁμιλεῖσθαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.62 O.))]; ταῦτα ἡ ἐμὴ νεότης.. ἐς τὴν Πελοποννησίων δύναμιν.. ὡμίλησε these were the achievements of my youth in intercourse with their power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.17.)]
VII of place, come into, enter, visit, with dative, διαβάντες τὸν Ἅλυν.. ὡμίλησαν τῇ Φρυγίῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.26, compare 214, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 7.8)]; βαρεῖα χώρᾳ τῇδ᾽ ὁ. heavily will I visit this land, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 720; ὁ. παρ᾽ οἰκείαις ἀρούραις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.19; ὁ. τοιᾷδε πόλει 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 292; poetry also ὁ. ἄνθεσιν 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 47)]:—passive, τὰ ὁμιλούμενα τῶν χωρίων most frequented, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 1.16.)]
VIII ἐκτὸς ὁμιλεῖ (i.e. τῶν ξυντρόφων ὀργῶν) he wanders from his senses, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 640 (Lyric poetry).)]