φωνέω, 
φώνω; imperfect 3 person singular 
ἐφώνει; future 
φωνήσω; 1 aorist 
ἐφώνησα; 1 aorist infinitive passive, 
φωνηθῆναι; (
φωνή); 
1. as from 
Homer down, intransitive, 
to sound, emit a sound, to speak: of a cock, 
to crow, Matthew 26:34, 
74; 
Mark 14:30, 
68 (
L brackets; 
WH omits the clause (see the latter's Appendix at the passage)), 72; 
Luke 22:34, 
60; 
John 13:38; 
John 18:27 (of the cries of other animals, 
Isaiah 38:14; 
Jeremiah 17:11; 
Zephaniah 2:14; rarely so in secular authors as (
Aristotle (see Liddell and Scott, under I. 2)), 
Aesop fab. 36 (225 edition Halm)); of men, 
to cry, cry out, cry aloud, speak with a loud voice: followed by the words uttered, 
Luke 8:8; with 
φωνή μεγάλη added ((cf. 
Winer's Grammar, § 32, 2 at the end), 
Mark 1:26 T Tr WH); 
Acts 16:28; 
ἐφώνησε λέγων, 
Luke 8:54; 
φωνήσας εἶπεν, 
Luke 16:24; 
φωνήσας φωνή μεγάλη... 
εἶπεν, 
Luke 23:46; 
ἐφώνησεν ἐν κραυγή (
L T Tr WH φωνή) 
μεγάλη... 
λέγων, 
Revelation 14:18; (
φωνήσαντες ἐπυνθάνοντο (
WH text 
ἐπυθοντο), 
Acts 10:18). 
2. as from (
Homer, Odyssey 24, 535) 
Sophocles down, transitive, 
a. to call, call to oneself: 
τινα — either by one's own voice, 
Matthew 20:32; 
Matthew 27:47; 
Mark 9:35; 
Mark 10:49 (cf. 
Buttmann, § 141, 5 at the end); 
Mark 15:35; 
John 1:48(
John 1:49); 
John 2:9; 
4:16; 
10:3 L T Tr WH; 
John 11:28a; 
18:33; 
Acts 9:41; 
Acts 10:7; — or through another; 
to send for, summon: 
Mark 3:31 R G; 
Luke 16:2; 
John 9:18, 
24; 
John 11:28b; 
εἶπε φωνηθῆναι αὐτῷ τούς κτλ., 
Luke 19:15; 
ἐφώνησεν τινα... 
ἐκ, with a genitive of the place, 
to call out of (i. e. bid one to quit a place and come to one), 
John 12:17. 
b. to invite: 
Luke 14:12. 
c. equivalent to 
to address, accost, call by a name: 
τινα, followed by a nominative of the title (see 
Winers Grammar, § 29, 1; (
Buttmann, § 131, 8)), 
John 13:13. (Compare: 
ἀναφωνέω, 
ἐπιφωνέω, 
προσφωνέω, 
συμφωνέω.) 
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