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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Impediment:

im-ped'-i-ment: Found in Mr 7:32, "had an impediment in his speech," as a translation of mogilalos, comparative of mogos, "toil" and lalos, "speech," i.e. one who speaks with difficulty. In the Septuagint the word is used as a translation of ‘illem, "dumb" (Isa 35:6)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Impediment:

denotes "speaking with difficulty" (mogis, "hardly," laleo, "to talk"), "stammering," Mar 7:32; some mss. have moggilalos, "thick-voiced" (from moggos, "with a hoarse, hollow voice"). In the Sept., Isa 35:6 "(the tongue) of stammerers."