Alalazo means “wail” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H214 — otsar (“depository”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G214 ἀλαλάζω (alalazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. alalazo (al-al-ad'-zo) v. 1. to cry out loudly (vehemently), clamor 2. (by implication) to wail It has 20 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include wailed. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
alalazo (al-al-ad'-zo) v. 1. to cry out loudly (vehemently), clamor 2. (by implication) to wail 3. (figuratively) to clang [from alale "a shout" (i.e. halloo)] KJV: tinkle, wail
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G214. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to wail
Usage: ἀλαλάζω (onomat. from the battle-cry ἀλαλά), [in LXX chiefly for רוּעַ hi., יָלַל ;] prop, to raise a war-cry, shout with triumph or joy; rarely of grief, to wail: Mrk.5:38 (cf. Jer.4:8); of a cymbal, ἀλαλάζον (RV. clanging), 1Co.13:1 (cf. ὀλολύζω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render alalazo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G214 (ἀλαλάζω) appears 18 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
16 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:
And they came to Lehi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burned with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.
And the men of Israel and Judah arose, and shouted and pursued them as far as the entrance to Gath, and as far as the gate of Ashkelon: and the slain men of the Philistines fell in the way of the gates, both to Gath, and to Ekron.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And when she had left off speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.
Then my afflicted shouted for joy, And my weak ones cried aloud; but they were astonished: These lifted up their voices, but they were overthrown.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G214.
And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:
And they came to Lehi: and the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as tow which is burned with fire; and his bonds were consumed from off his hands.
And the men of Israel and Judah arose, and shouted and pursued them as far as the entrance to Gath, and as far as the gate of Ashkelon: and the slain men of the Philistines fell in the way of the gates, both to Gath, and to Ekron.
Clap your hands, all ye nations; Shout to God with a voice of exultation.
For the end, a Song of a Psalm of resurrection. Shout unto God, all the earth.
Rejoice ye in God our helper; Shout aloud to the God of Jacob.
The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us exult in the Lord; Let us make a joyful noise to God our Savior.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, And make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
Shout to God, all the earth; Sing, and exult, and sing psalms.
With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn Make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king.
A Psalm for Thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.
For these things gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.
Behold, waters come up from the north, and shall become a sweeping torrent, and it shall sweep away the land, and its fullness; the city, and them that dwell in it: and men shall cry and all that dwell in the land shall howl,
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai has perished; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament; for Milcom shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and ye shall fall as the choice rams.
And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.
And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And when she had left off speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.
Then my afflicted shouted for joy, And my weak ones cried aloud; but they were astonished: These lifted up their voices, but they were overthrown.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G214, grouped by book.
Alalazo (Strong's G214) is a Greek word most simply glossed "wail". alalazo (al-al-ad'-zo) v. 1. to cry out loudly (vehemently), clamor 2. (by implication) to wail
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's G214 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G214 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as wailed. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 16 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G214, with linked reader references where each row is available.