χλευάζω
chleuázō · G5512 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to scoff, to jeer, to joke at
To make fun of someone by joking or jesting
ExamplesActs 2:13 But others were jeering and saying, “They are full of sweet wine!”
How it’s used In 1 role
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὁthe (definite article) 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐμπαίζω empaízō · G1702 · to mock, to ridicule
- Both verbs denote mocking or scornful derision. ἐμπαίζω additionally carries a sense of deception or trickery beyond mockery, but this does not displace the core convergence between the two verbs in the specific sense of ridicule and mockery.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To scoff, to jeer, to joke at33.408
- Acts 17:32 recounts that when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, “some began to scoff, but others said, We shall hear from you again concerning this”.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon imperfect ἐχλεύαζον; (χλεύη, jesting, mockery); to deride, mock, jeer: Acts 2:13 Rec.; .…
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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