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ὀνειδίζω

oneidízō · G3679 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to insult, insult

    To speak disparagingly of a person in a manner which is not justified

    Examples

    Matthew 5:11 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

    Matthew 27:44 And the rebels who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him in the same way.

    Mark 15:32 “Let this Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with Him were also insulting Him.

  2. to reprimand, to reproach

    To reproach someone, with the implication of that individual being evidently to blame

    Examples

    Matthew 11:20 Then He began to reprimand the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.

    Mark 16:14 Later He appeared to the eleven disciples themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reprimanded them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen from the dead.

    Luke 6:22 “Blessed are you when the people hate you, and when they exclude you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

How it’s used In 6 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 7 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word
חָרַף châraph · H2778 · to reproach, to taunt, to insult
Hebrew חָרַף (châraph, H2778) and Greek ὀνειδίζω (oneidízō, G3679) share the core semantic domain of verbal reproach and taunt, both denoting public defamation or challenge; the Hebrew term encompasses a slightly broader range including 'blaspheme' and 'defy' (particularly in martial/covenant contexts), while the Greek focuses more narrowly on the act of railing and chiding, but the overlap in 'reproach' and 'upbraid' senses justifies cross-linguistic equivalence.
Semantic domains 2 entries
To insult, insult33.389
Teaching on persecution, Matthew 5:11 states Jesus said, “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me,” where “insult” renders this verb.
To reprimand, to reproach33.422
Describing Jesus's rebuke of unbelief, Mark 16:14 states “Later He appeared to the eleven disciples themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He reprimanded them for their unbelief and hardness of heart,” where “reprimanded” renders this same verb, here of a corrective rebuke rather than a hostile insult.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ὄνειδος óneidos · G3681 · disgrace · 1×ὀνειδίζωoneidízō · G3679ὀνειδισμός oneidismós · G3680 · insult · 5×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon imperfect ὠνείδιζον; 1 aorist ὠνείδισα; present passive ὀνειδίζομαι; (ὄνειδος, which…
imperfect ὠνείδιζον; 1 aorist ὠνείδισα; present passive ὀνειδίζομαι; (ὄνειδος, which see); from Homer down; the Sept. especially for חָרַף; to reproach, upbraid, revile; (on its construction cf. Winer's Grammar, § 32, 1 b. β.; Buttmann, § 133, 9): of deserved reproach, τινα, followed by ὅτι, Mt 11:20; τί (the fault) τίνος, followed by ὅτι, Mk 16:14. of unjust reproach, to revile: τινα, Mt 5:11; Mk 15:32; Luke vt. 22; Rom 15:3 from Ps 68:10; passive 1 Pet 4:14; followed by ὅτι, 1 Tim 4:10 R G Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading; τό αὐτό ὠνείδιζον αὐτόν (Rec. αὐτῷ), Mt 27:44 (see αὐτός, III. 1). to upbraid, cast (favors received) in one's teeth: absolutely Jas 1:5; μετά τό δοῦναι μή ὀνείδιζε, Sir. 41:22, cf. 20:14; τίνι σωτηρίαν, deliverance obtained by us for one, Polybius 9, 31, 4.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Insult, Slander6 occurrencesRebuke4 occurrences

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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