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
Hardly talking
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μογιλάλος G3424
Pronunciation mogilálos
What does μογιλάλος (mogilálos) mean in the Bible?
μογιλάλος (mogilálos): Speech impediment involving difficulty articulating words, not merely quietness or reluctance to speak
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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 It hardly able to speak 1× Mark 7:32
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Mark 7:32
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Mark 1
Source forms
μογιλάλον 1x mogilalon Mark 7:32
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular 1x Mark 7:32
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Speech impediment involving difficulty articulating words, not merely quietness or reluctance to speak
Strong's G3424
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Mark 7:31–37 Source Gloss
hardly talking
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Speech impediment involving difficulty articulating words, not merely quietness or reluctance to speak
(μόγις, λάλος), [in LXX: Isa.35:6 (אִלֵּם) * ;] speaking with difficulty: Mrk.7:32 (Tr., txt., μογγιλάλος, thick-voiced, see Swete, in l).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek 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 7:32 Adjective 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 patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · Masculine Mark 7:32 1×
Sampled Scripture Occurrences
Representative Scripture witnesses for this entry: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Additional Occurrences
Mark 7:31–37 μογιλάλος mogilálos
speech-impaired
New Testament Witnesses
speech-impaired
Word Origins
μογιλάλος is built from these roots:
μόγις G3425
Why This Word Matters
Echoes Isaiah 35 restoration.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain