ὀλιγωρέω
oligōréō · G3643 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to look down on, to have contempt for, to make light of, to despise
To regard something or someone as of little value
ExamplesHebrews 12:5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE PUNISHED BY HIM;
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παιδείαdiscipline, training 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 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 2 words
- καταφρονέω kataphronéō · G2706 · to despise, to scorn, to look down on
- Standard Greek verb for despising or thinking contemptuously of someone/something; shares the core sense of having little regard for, but is a distinct lexeme not from the ὀλίγος family
- περιφρονέω periphronéō · G4065 · to invalidate the authority of, to reject, to disregard
- Greek verb for despising or treating with disdain; semantically overlaps with the disesteem sense of ὀλιγωρέω but is a distinct compound verb
In the other Testament 3 words
- בּוּז bûwz · H936 · to despise, to scorn
- Standard Hebrew verb for despising or treating with contempt; direct translation equivalent for the sense of disregarding or making light of someone/something
- בָּזָה bâzâh · H959 · to despise, to disdain, to scorn
- Common Hebrew verb for despising or treating as worthless; captures the core sense of having little regard for something
- שָׁאט shâʼṭ · H7590 · to go about, to rove about, to row
- Hebrew verb meaning to despise or show contempt; less common but semantically equivalent to the disesteem sense of ὀλιγωρέω
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To look down on, to have contempt for, to make light of, to despise88.197
- Citing Proverbs on divine discipline, Hebrews 12:5 states “MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE PUNISHED BY HIM,” where “REGARD LIGHTLY” renders this verb for treating something with contempt or disregard.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀλιγώρω; (ὀλίγωρος, and this from ὀλίγος and ὥρα care); to care little for, regard…
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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