Word Summary
hallomai: to leap
Original Word: ἅλλομαιTransliteration: hallomai
Phonetic Spelling: (hal'-lom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to leap
Meaning: to leap
Strong's Concordance
leap, spring up.
Middle voice of apparently a primary verb; to jump; figuratively, to gush -- leap, spring up.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 242: ἅλλομαιἅλλομαι; imperfect
ἡλλόμην; aorist
ἡλάμην and
ἡλόμην (Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 108; (
Winers Grammar, 82 (79);
Buttmann, 54 (47)));
to leap (Latin
salio):
Acts 3:8;
Acts 14:10 (
Rec. ἥλλετο;
G L T Tr WH ἥλατο);
to spring up, gush up, of water,
John 4:14 (as in Latin
salire,
Vergil ecl. 5, 47;
Suetonius, Octav. 82). (Compare:
ἐξάλλομαι,
ἐφάλλομαι.)