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G3455 μυκάομαι (mykáomai)
Greek
Verb
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Quick Definition

I bellow, roar

Strong's Definition

to bellow (roar)

Derivation: from a presumed derivative of ( to "moo");

KJV Usage: roar

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

μυκάομαι, μυκωμαι; (from μύ or μύ, the sound which a cow utters (Latinmugio)), to low, bellow, properly, of horned cattle (Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, others); to roar, of a lion, Rev_10:3.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

μυκάομαι my kaomai 1x to low, bellow, as a bull; also, to roar, as a lion, Rev_10:3

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

** μυκάσμαι , -ῶμαι , in cl . chiefly poλt., [in Sm .: Job_6:5 * ;] prop ., of oxen (onomatop.), to low, bellow; of a lion, to roar: Rev_10:3 .†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

μυκάομαι [page 419] This NT ἅπ . εἰρ . ( Rev_10:3 ) is used of the roar of the sea in Kaibel 1028 .62 παντᾶι δὲ μελανθέι ῥοίζωι σπερχόμενος βαρὺ πόντος ἐνὶ σπήλυγξι βαθείαις μυκᾶτ᾽ ἐξ ἀδύτων . Cf. P Leid W xxi. 30 (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 155) ἔσω προσβαλόμενος μύκησαι ὀλολυγμός ( l. όν ), also .33 μύκησαι ὅσον δύνασαι .

Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon

μυκάομαι [Etym: Formed from the sound, cf. βληχάομαι, μηκάομαι, βρυχάομαι, βρωμάομαι.] Lat. mugire, to low, bellow, roar, of oxen, Il. ; of calves, Od; of Hercules in agony, Eur. , etc. of things, as of heavy gates, "to grate, creak", Il. ; of a shield, "to ring", id=Il. ; of meat roasting, "to hiss" upon the spits, Od. ; of thunder, Ar.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

μυκάσμαι, -ῶμαι in cl. chiefly poët., [in Sm.: Job.6:5 * ;] prop., of oxen (onomatop.), to low, bellow; of a lion, to roar: Rev.10:3.† (AS)

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