chōlos · lame

What it means

chōlos (χωλός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “lame”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who cannot walk well.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Where it appears

• Matthew×5
• Mark×1
• Luke×3
• John×1
• Acts×3
• Hebrews×1

• Matthew 11:5

  the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

• Matthew 15:30

  And many crowds came to him, having with them the mute, blind, lame, maimed, and many others, and they set them at his feet; and he healed them,

• Matthew 15:31

  so that the crowd was amazed seeing the mute speaking, the maimed whole, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

• Matthew 18:8

  And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter into life maimed or lame than having two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

• Matthew 21:14

  And the blind and lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

• Mark 9:45

  And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life lame than having the two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.

• Luke 7:22

  And he answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.

• Luke 14:13

  But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;

• Luke 14:21

  And the slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

• John 5:3

  In these lay a multitude of the sick: blind, lame, withered.

• Acts 3:2

  And a certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they used to set every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those entering into the temple.

• Acts 8:7

  For from many of those who had unclean spirits, the spirits were coming out, crying with a loud voice; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.

• Acts 14:8

  And in Lystra a certain man was sitting, without strength in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.

• Hebrews 12:13

  and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.