ᾠδήōidḗ
a chant or "ode" (the general term for any words sung; while G5215 (ὕμνος) denotes especially a religious metrical composition, and G5568 (ψαλμός) still more specially, a Hebrew cantillation)
Greek (New Testament) · G5603
Meanings
a song, ode, whether sad or joyful; in LXX and NT always in praise of God or Christ: Revelation 5:9, Revelation 14:3, Revelation 15:3; ᾠ πνευματικαί Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Ephesians 5:19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.
- Colossians 3:16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.
- Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
- Revelation 14:3 This great choir sang a wonderful new song in front of the throne of God and before the four living beings and the twenty-four elders. No one could learn this song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
- Revelation 15:3 And they were singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: “Great and marvelous are your works, O Lord God, the Almighty. Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.