What does μογιλάλος (mogilálos) mean in the Bible?
μογιλάλος (mogilálos): Speech impediment involving difficulty articulating words, not merely quietness or reluctance to speak
Greek · G3424
μογιλάλος
μογιλάλος (mogilálos): Speech impediment involving difficulty articulating words, not merely quietness or reluctance to speak
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μογιλάλοςG3424
Pronunciationmogilálos
What does μογιλάλος (mogilálos) mean in the Bible?
Full entry for μογιλάλος (G3424) · Open the biblical lexicon
Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3424?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include hardly able to speak (1).
Where does μογιλάλος (mogilálos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 7:32. Its strongest book concentrations include Mark (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ithardly able to speak1×Mark 7:32
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowMark 7:32
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Mark1
Source forms
μογιλάλον1xmogilalonMark 7:32
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular1xMark 7:32
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Speech impediment involving difficulty articulating words, not merely quietness or reluctance to speak
Strong'sG3424
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Study linkMark 7:31–37Source Gloss
hardly talking
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Mark 7:32Adjective Accusative Singular Masculine
μογιλάλον,mogilalon
one speaking with difficulty, a stammerer
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · MasculineMark 7:321×
Sampled Scripture Occurrences
Representative Scripture witnesses for this entry: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Additional Occurrences
Mark 7:31–37μογιλάλοςmogilálos
speech-impaired
New Testament Witnesses
speech-impaired
Word Origins
μογιλάλος is built from these roots:
μόγιςG3425
Why This Word Matters
Echoes Isaiah 35 restoration.