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"3": "ἐλάλουν τε γλώσσαις"
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"etymology_text": "Calque of Ancient Greek ἐλάλουν τε γλώσσαις (eláloun te glṓssais)",
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"ref": "Acts 19:6",
"text": "And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied."
},
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"ref": "1830 August 3, A. Robertson, “ROW HERESY AND GARELOCH MIRACLES”, in The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, volume XI, number 527, Liverpool, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 3",
"text": "\"These letters evince the degree of enthusiasm to which their writers, and others of the same persuasion, had attained, before their pretensions to the gift of tongues. Having adopted, by means of their spiritual instructors, extravagant views of the operation of the Holy Spirit, they were, in a peculiar sense, in the Spirit, and had the mind of Christ ; and, modelling the Scriptures on these topics to their favourite prepossessions, they came to the conclusion that they were enlightened to understand the mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures, as perfectly as the Apostles were inspired to write it! This prepared them for the next stage of delusion, namely, that the same power which enabled the Apostles to speak in tongues, was also in them, and that their thoughts and words were not their own, but the Spirit’s.",
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"To speak in a language unknown to the speaker, especially when in a state of religious ecstasy; glossolalia."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "說方言"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "shuō fāngyán",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "tale i tunger"
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"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "puhua kielillä"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "parler en langues"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "in fremden Zungen sprechen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "in Sprachen reden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "in fremden Sprachen reden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "Sprachenrede praktizieren"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "Zungenrede praktizieren"
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"word": "glossolalieren"
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"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "parlare in lingue"
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"alt": "いげんをかたる",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "igen o kataru",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "異言を語る"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "tale i tunger"
},
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "glossolalere"
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"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "tale i tunger"
},
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"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "falar em línguas"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "hablar en lenguas"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "tala i tungor"
}
]
}
],
"word": "speak in tongues"
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"text": "And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied."
},
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"ref": "1830 August 3, A. Robertson, “ROW HERESY AND GARELOCH MIRACLES”, in The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, volume XI, number 527, Liverpool, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 3",
"text": "\"These letters evince the degree of enthusiasm to which their writers, and others of the same persuasion, had attained, before their pretensions to the gift of tongues. Having adopted, by means of their spiritual instructors, extravagant views of the operation of the Holy Spirit, they were, in a peculiar sense, in the Spirit, and had the mind of Christ ; and, modelling the Scriptures on these topics to their favourite prepossessions, they came to the conclusion that they were enlightened to understand the mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures, as perfectly as the Apostles were inspired to write it! This prepared them for the next stage of delusion, namely, that the same power which enabled the Apostles to speak in tongues, was also in them, and that their thoughts and words were not their own, but the Spirit’s.",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "說方言"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shuō fāngyán",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "说方言"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "tale i tunger"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "puhua kielillä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "parler en langues"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "in fremden Zungen sprechen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "in Sprachen reden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "in fremden Sprachen reden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "Sprachenrede praktizieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "Zungenrede praktizieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "Zungenreden praktizieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "glossolalieren"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "parlare in lingue"
},
{
"alt": "いげんをかたる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "igen o kataru",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "異言を語る"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "tale i tunger"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "glossolalere"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "tale i tunger"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "glossolalere"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "falar em línguas"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "hablar en lenguas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "speak in a language unknown to the speaker",
"word": "tala i tungor"
}
],
"word": "speak in tongues"
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