ὑβριστής
hybristḗs · G5197 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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insolent person, insolent and violent
(Derivative of ὑβρίζω ‘to mistreat with insolence,’) One who maltreats others with insolence
ExamplesRomans 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
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one who insults, insulter
(Derivative of ὑβρίζω to insult) One who insults in an arrogant manner
Examples1 Timothy 1:13 even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;
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
- λοίδορος loídoros · G3060 · slanderer
- One who verbally abuses and reviles others; both terms describe those who insult and mistreat others through speech, though λοίδορος emphasizes the reviling aspect while ὑβριστής can include physical maltreatment alongside verbal abuse
- βλάσφημος blásphēmos · G989 · insulting, slanderous, blasphemous
- One who speaks abusively or slanderously; overlaps with ὑβριστής in describing abusive speech, though βλάσφημος often carries religious overtones (blasphemy against God) while ὑβριστής is more general insolent maltreatment
Contrasting words 2 words
- πραΰς praÿs · G4239 · mild, gentle, meek
- Direct lexical opposite: the meek/gentle person shows humility and restraint, the opposite character trait of the insolent, violent insulter; πραΰς is the antithesis of the aggressive, overbearing behavior that defines ὑβριστής
- ἐπιεικής epieikḗs · G1933 · gentle, gracious, forbearing
- Lexical opposite describing one who is gentle and forbearing rather than insulting and violent; represents the opposite disposition to the insolent maltreatment characteristic of ὑβριστής
In the other Testament 1 word
- לוּץ lûwts · H3887 · insolent person, to behave arrogantly
- Hebrew term for one who mocks and scorns, a verbal abuser who treats others with contempt, closely parallel to the insulting behavior of ὑβριστής
Semantic domains 2 entries
- One who insults, insulter33.392
- Romans 1:30 — “slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents.”
- Insolent person, insolent and violent88.132
- 1 Timothy 1:13 — “even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὑβριστοῦ, ὁ (ὑβρίζω), from Homer down, "an insolent man, 'one who, uplifted with pride,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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