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kraugazō

κραυγάζω

GreekG2905cry out, shout, ...

Appears 9 times · tap a cell to see the verses

Mat 12:19Luk 4:41Jhn 11:43Jhn 12:13Jhn 18:40Jhn 19:6Jhn 19:12Jhn 19:15Act 22:23
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What kraugazō means

to cry out loudly: to shout or clamor, often with a raucous, insistent voice

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This word names a loud vocal outburst, not ordinary speaking or a calm call. It is the roar of a crowd worked up to a pitch, and it is also the single voice raised at full volume in urgency or acclamation. In every case the point is the sheer force of the sound.

John's account of Jesus before Pilate returns to this word again and again as the crowd shouts the governor down: "Not this man, but Barabbas," then "Crucify him," then "Away with him." The same verb carries the crowd's "Hosanna" at the entry into Jerusalem and the mob that screams for Paul's death. It can also describe one loud cry rather than a crowd: Jesus shouting "Lazarus, come out" at the tomb, and unclean spirits crying out that they know who Jesus is.

It sits close to the more common verb κράζω, a piercing scream or croak, and to its own related noun κραυγή, "outcry" or "clamor." Matthew leans on that raucous coloring by negation: quoting Isaiah, he says the chosen Servant "will not cry out" or raise his voice in the streets, a quiet dignity set deliberately against the kind of public shouting this word usually names.

Mat 12:19Luk 4:41Jhn 11:43Jhn 12:13Jhn 18:40Jhn 19:6Jhn 19:12Jhn 19:15Act 22:23

What scholars say about kraugazō

BDAG glosses κραυγάζω as "to cry out, cry aloud, shout," an intensive by-form of κράζω associated with the noun κραυγή. Grundmann (TDNT 3:898-903, s.v. κράζω κτλ.) treats the κραυγ- word group as denoting loud, often inarticulate clamorous crying. The Fourth Gospel's repeated use in the passion narrative (18:40; 19:6, 12, 15) marks the crowd's hostile shouting, while 11:43 applies it to a single loud cry and 12:13 to a festal acclamation. Matthew 12:19, citing Isaiah 42:2, uses the future to deny such public clamor of the chosen Servant. Acts 22:23 and Luke 4:41 confirm the sense of raucous outcry, from a rioting mob and from unclean spirits respectively.

Sources

  • BDAG (Bauer-Danker-Arndt-Gingrich), A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, 3rd ed., s.v. κραυγάζωlexicon
  • LSJ (Liddell-Scott-Jones), A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed., s.v. κραυγάζωlexicon
  • W. Grundmann, "κράζω, ἀνακράζω, κραυγή, κραυγάζω," in Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT) 3:898-903dictionary

All attested forms of κραυγάζω

aorist active indicative 3p

ἐκραύγασαν

Jhn 18:40, Jhn 19:6, Jhn 19:12, Jhn 19:15

aorist active indicative 3s

ἐκραύγασεν

Jhn 11:43

future active indicative 3s

κραυγάσει

Mat 12:19

imperfect active indicative 3p

ἐκραύγαζον

Jhn 12:13

present active participle genitive m p

κραυγαζόντων

Act 22:23

present active participle nominative n p

κραυγάζοντα

Luk 4:41