δολόω
dolóō · G1389 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to cause to be false, to distort
To cause something to be or to become false as the result of deception or distortion
Examples2 Corinthians 4:2 but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in trickery nor distorting the word of God, but by the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in the sight of God.
How it’s used In 2 roles
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λόγοςword, saying, message 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- καπηλεύω kapēleúō · G2585 · to peddle for profit, to huckster
- Greek verb used by Paul in 2 Cor 2:17 for corrupting or peddling God's word for profit, in the sense of adulterating or falsifying it. Shares the semantic territory of corrupting/adulterating truth or sacred content with δολόω.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To cause to be false, to distort72.9
- Used of corrupting a message so that it no longer conveys the truth, as of not adulterating the word of God but commending oneself by the open statement of the truth in 2 Corinthians 4:2.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δόλῳ; (δόλος; 1. to ensnare: Hesiod, Herodotus and succeeding writers. 2. to corrupt,…
1. to ensnare: Hesiod, Herodotus and succeeding writers.
2. to corrupt, (βδελλιον and λίβανον, Dioscor. 1, 80. 81); τόν οἶνον, Lucian, Hermot. 59) τόν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ, divine truth by mingling with it wrong notions, 2 Cor 4:2. (Cf. Trench, § 62, and see καπηλεύω.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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