UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἦχος · ἐξηχέομαι · κατηχέω · προσαχέω

Sense 1: to produce a sound, to make noise

Semantic entry: 14.80

Semantic domains: Physical Events and States

Subdomains: Sound

Definition: to produce a sound or noise not involving human speech

Notes: In translating χαλκὸς ἠχῶν it is usually desirable to employ a term which will more specifically refer to the sound of brass cymbals, for example, ‘resounding cymbal’ or ‘clanging cymbal.’

CO1 13:1: RV CO1 13:1 · LV CO1 13:1 · Read together CO1 13:1

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OET-RV CO1 13:1

13 Even if I could speak in human languages as well as the languages of God’s messengers, but didn’t love others, then I’d just be like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

OET-LV CO1 13:1

13 If with _the tongues of_ the _humans I _may _be _speaking and of_ the _messengers, but love not I _may _be _having, I _have _become brass resounding or a_cymbal screaming.

Sense 2: brass gong

Semantic entry: 6.95

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Musical Instruments

Definition: (an idiom, literally: echoing brass, or: resounding brass) a gong made of brass

Notes: In a number of languages the equivalent of gong is ‘noisy metal’ or ‘reverberating metal’ or ‘echoing metal,’ but frequently translators have simply used an expression meaning ‘loud bell.’

Collocations: χαλκὸς ἠχῶν