ὀργίλος
orgílos · G3711 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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angry, quick-tempered, given to anger
Pertaining to a tendency to become angry
ExamplesTitus 1:7 For the overseer must be beyond reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not overindulging in wine, not a bully, not greedy for money,
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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Contrasting words 2 words
- πραΰς praÿs · G4239 · mild, gentle, meek
- πραΰς (gentle/meek) is the standard Greek lexical opposite of ὀργίλος (irascible/quick-tempered); one describes a calm, gentle temperament while the other describes proneness to anger.
- ἐπιεικής epieikḗs · G1933 · gentle, gracious, forbearing
- ἐπιεικής describes someone who is forbearing, gentle, and reasonable in disposition—the opposite of someone who is quick-tempered or irascible (ὀργίλος). Both appear in vice/virtue lists describing character qualities.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Angry, quick-tempered, given to anger88.175
- ὀργίλος describes a person's habitual disposition toward quick anger, listed among the vices an overseer must not have: “For the overseer must be beyond reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not overindulging in wine, not a bully, not greedy for money.” (Titus 1:7)
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀργιλη, ὀργίλον (ὀργή), prone to anger, irascible (A. V. soon angry): Tit 1:7. (Prov…
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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