Quick Definition
a flute-player
Strong's Definition
a flute-player
Derivation: from G832 (αὐλέω);
KJV Usage: minstrel, piper
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
αὐλητής, ἀυλητου, ὁ (αὐλέω), a flute-player: Mat_9:23; Rev_18:22. (In Greek writings from (Theognis and) Herodotus 6, 60 down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
αὐλητής aulētēs 2x
a player on a pipe or flute, Mat_9:23 ; Rev_18:22
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* αὐλητής , -οῦ , ὁ
( < αὐλέω ),
a flute-player: Mat_9:23 , Rev_18:22 ( MM , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
αὐλητής [page 92]
αὐλητής is found in P Hib I. 54 .6 ( c. B.C. 245) where the writer gives instructions regarding a forthcoming festival ἀπό [σ ]τειλον . . . τὸν αὐλητὴν Πετωῦν ἔχοντ [α ] τούς τε Φρυγίους αὐλ [ο ]ὺς καὶ τοὺς λοιπούς . So in P Oxy X. 1275 .9 (iii/A.D.), where ὁ̣ προεστὼς συμφωνίας αὐλητῶν καὶ μουσικῶν is engaged with his company (συμφωνία ) for a five days village festival. The festival for which the flute-player is wanted is more unmistakably secular in the fragmentary menu , P Giss I. 93 .14 . Generally he belongs to the apparatus of religion. So apparently in Cagnat IV. 135 .4 (B.C. 46 a revision of Syll 348), recording the prayer of Σωτηρίδης Γάλλος a priest of the Magna Mater at Cyzicus on behalf of his partner (σύμβιος ) M. Stlaccius, an αὐλητής , who had been taken captive in a military expedition and sold. Syll 612 .18 (B.C. 24) gives us an αὐλητής in a list of functionaries connected with the temple of Zeus at Olympia : Dittenberger tells us this was the vernacular for σπονδαύλης , a title found always in ii/A.D. An αὐλητὴς τραγικός is mentioned in OGIS 51 (iii/B.C.) amongst the ἀδελφοί who formed the synod of the priest Zopyrus for ceremonial purposes. In Magn 98 .45 the στεφανηφόρος has to provide αὐλητὴν συριστὴν κιθαριστήν for a festival of Zeus Sosipolis; while ib. 237 is illustrated by an interesting sketch showing the triclinium ἱερῶν αὐλητρίδων καὶ ἀκροβατῶν attached to the temple of Archegetis of Chalchis. In the fragment of an uncanonical Gospel, composed before A.D. 200, reference is made to the washing of the outside skin όπερ [κα ]ὶ αἱ πόρναι καὶ α [ἱ ] αὐλητρίδες μυρί [ζ ]ου [σιν κ ]αὶ λούουσιν κτλ . (P Oxy V. 840 .35 ff. )
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
αὐλητής [Etym: αὐλέω] "a flute-player", Lat. tibicen, Theogn. , Hdt. , etc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
αὐλητής, -οῦ, ὁ
(αὐλέω),
a flute-player: Mat.9:23, Rev.18:22 (MM, see word).†
(AS)