Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Wailing greatly (alalazontav polla). An onomatopoetic word from Pindar down. The soldiers on entering battle cried Alala. Used of clanging cymbals (I Corinthians 13:1). Like ololuzw in James 5:1. It is used here of the monotonous wail of the hired mourners.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 5:38:
John 11:33
Acts 13:15
Acts 20:1
Acts 20:10
1 Corinthians 13:1
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