Word Summary
alalētos: inexpressible
Original Word: ἀλάλητοςTransliteration: alalētos
Phonetic Spelling: (al-al'-ay-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: inexpressible
Meaning: inexpressible
Strong's Concordance
unutterable, inexpressible.
From a (as a negative particle) and a derivative of laleo; unspeakable -- unutterable, which cannot be uttered.
see GREEK a
see GREEK laleo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 215: ἀλάλητοςἀλάλητος, (
λαλητός from
λαλέω; (cf.
Winers Grammar, 23)),
not to be uttered, not to be expressed in words:
στεναγμοί mute sighs, the expression of which is suppressed by grief,
Romans 8:26 (others, 'which (from their nature) cannot be uttered'; cf. Meyer at the passage;
Winers Grammar, 97 (92)). (
Anth. Pal. 5, 4
συνίστορα ἀλαλήτων, i. e. of love-secrets.)