Strong's Lexicon
G1225 — διαβάλλω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G1225 |
|---|---|
| Word: | διαβάλλω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G1223 and G906 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | diaballo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | dee-ab-al'-lo |
| Meaning: | 1. (figuratively) to slander |
| KJV Renderings: | accuse |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
διαβάλλω: 1 aorist passive διεβλήθην:
1. properly, to throw over or across, to send over, (τί διά τίνος).
2. very often, from Herodotus down, to traduce, calumniate, slander, accuse, defame (cf. Latinperstringere, German durchziehen, διά as it were from one to another; see Winer, De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 17)), not only of those who bring a false charge against one (διεβλητο πρός αὐτόν ἀδίκως, Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 3), but also of those who disseminate the truth concerning a man, but do so maliciously, insidiously, with hostility (cf. Lucian’s Essay de calumn. non temere credend.) (Dan 3:8, the Sept.; Dan 6:24 Theod.); so διεβλήθη αὐτῷ ὡς διασκορπίζων, Luk 16:1 (with the dative of person to whom the charge is made, also in Herodotus 5, 35, et al.; τινα πρός τινα, Herodotus 5, 96, et al.; followed by ὡς with participle, Xenophon, Hell. 2, 3, 23; Plato, epistles 7, p. 334 a.). (Synonym: see κατηγορέω.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
διαβάλλω (accuse)
Luke 16:1
- KJV: And he said also unto his disciples There was a certain rich man which had a steward and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods
- GK: έλεγε δε και προς τους μαθητάς αυτού άνθρωπός τις ην πλούσιος ος είχεν οικονόμον και ούτος διεβλήθη αυτώ ως διασκορπίζων τα υπάρχοντα αυτού