Original Word: χολάω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: cholaó
Phonetic Spelling: (khol-ah'-o)
Definition: to be melancholy, mad, angry
Usage: I am angry with.

5520 xoláō (akin to 5521 /xolḗ, "gall, bile") – properly, full of bile; (figuratively) filled with bitter anger and hence harsh (even violent).

[This is also the meaning of this term in classical Greek.]

Word Origin
from cholé
Definition
to be melancholy, mad, angry
NASB Translation
angry (1).

STRONGS NT 5520: χολάω

χολάω, χόλῳ; (χολή, which see);

1. to be atrabilious; to be mad (Aristophanes nub. 833).

2. to be angry, enraged (for χολοῦμαι, more common in the earlier Greek writings from Homer down): τίνι, John 7:23 (3Macc. 3:1; Artemidorus Daldianus, Nicander, Mosch., Diogenes Laërt, others).

be angry.

From chole; to be bilious, i.e. (by implication) irritable (enraged, "choleric") -- be angry.

see GREEK chole

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