κατάλαλος
katálalos · G2637 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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slanderer, one who insults
(Derivative of καταλαλέω ‘to speak evil of,’) One who engages in speaking against or insulting
ExamplesRomans 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ψιθυριστής psithyristḗs · G5588 · gossiper
- Greek noun for one who whispers malicious reports, closely overlapping with κατάλαλος but emphasizing the secretive, whispered nature of the slander
- διάβολος diábolos · G1228 · demon, evil spirit
- Greek adjective/noun meaning slanderer or false accuser, overlapping with κατάλαλος in the semantic domain of speaking maliciously against others. διάβολος emphasizes the act of bringing false accusations or charges (traducing), while κατάλαλος focuses on speaking against someone behind their back; διάβολος also has the specialized application as the title for Satan.
In the other Testament 2 words
- רָכִיל râkîyl · H7400 · slander
- Hebrew noun for one who goes about spreading slander or gossip, closely equivalent to κατάλαλος as one who speaks against others
- נִרְגָּן nirgân · H5372 · to complain, to grumble
- Hebrew noun for one who slanders or whispers accusations, a malicious informer parallel to κατάλαλος
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Slanderer, one who insults33.388
- In Romans 1:30, Paul lists the vices of those who reject God, “slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,” using this word for one who habitually speaks maliciously against others.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon καταλαλου, ὁ, a defamer, evil speaker (A. V. back-biters): Rom 1:30. (Found nowhere else…
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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