καταφρονέω
kataphronéō · G2706 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to despise, to scorn, to look down on
To feel contempt for someone or something because it is thought to be bad or without value
ExamplesMatthew 18:10 “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones; for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
Luke 16:13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
Romans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and restraint and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
9 occurrences in 6 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 2
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- Not stated (participle) 2
- ἔχωto have 1
- μηδείςno one 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
8 occurrences in 7 groups
- ἕτεροςother, another, different 2
- αἰσχύνηshame, disgrace 1
- ἐκκλησίαcongregation, church 1
- κυριότηςruling power 1
- μικρόςsmall, little 1
- νεότηςyouth 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὁράωto see 1
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 1 word
- ἐξουθενέω exouthenéō · G1848 · to despise
- Both verbs denote despising or disdaining, with adjacent, narrowly specific senses of scorn.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To despise, to scorn, to look down on88.192
- In Matthew 6:24, Jesus teaches, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth,” using this word for the act of holding someone or something in contempt.
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon καταφρόνω; future καταφρονήσω; 1 aorist κατεφρόνησα; (from Herodotus down); to contemn,…
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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