καταλαλία
katalalía · G2636 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to speak evil of, to slander, slander
To speak against, often involving speaking evil of
Examples2 Corinthians 12:20 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish, and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, selfishness, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;
1 Peter 2:1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀποτίθημιto put away 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- βλασφημέω blasphēméō · G987 · to blaspheme, to defame
- Both verbs denote forms of defamatory speech. βλασφημέω carries a specifically sacred register — impious speech, blasphemy — while the target denotes slander or defamation in a more general, neutral register. This is a genuine register distinction between two verbs of verbal abuse, independently confirmed by their respective glosses.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To speak evil of, to slander, slander33.387
- In 2 Corinthians 12:20, Paul lists the sins he fears finding among the Corinthians, “strife, jealousy, angry tempers, selfishness, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances,” using this word for the disparaging talk itself, as a noun rather than the verb of speaking it.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon καταλαλιάς, ἡ (κατάλαλος, which see), defamation, evil-speaking: 2 Cor 12:20; 1 Pet 2:1…
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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