Strong G3058λοιδορέω

to revile

Transliteration
loidoreō
Pronunciation
loy-dor-eh'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G3060; to reproach that is vilify: - revile.

Detailed definition

λοιδορέω, -ῶ
(λοίδορος) [in LXX chiefly for רִיב;]
to abuse, revile: with accusative of person(s), Jhn.9:28, Act.23:4; pass., 1Co.4:12, 1Pe.2:23 (cf. ἀντι-λοιδορέω).†
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In the Bible

Strong G3058 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • revile3
  • thou1

First verses

  1. John 9:28
    Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples.
  2. Acts 23:4
    And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?
  3. 1 Corinthians 4:12
    And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
  4. 1 Peter 2:23
    Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
λοιδορ-έω,
future -ήσω [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.48)]: aorist ἐλοιδόρησα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 873, etc.)]: perfect λελοιδόρηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 241e:)] —middle and passive (see. below), future -ήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1400, etc.)]: aorist ἐλοιδορησάμην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.59)]; Attic dialect more frequently ἐλοισορήθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.54, 54.5 (see. below))]: (λοίδορος):—abuse, revile, τινα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.145; θεούς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.37, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1140, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.49, “BGU” 1007.6 (3rd c.BC))], etc.: absolutely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] [same place], etc.; sometimes simply, rebuke, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.9; οἶνον εἰς ἐπίνοιαν λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 90, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.175b (_passive_))]: with neuter adjective, ἐμαυτὸν πόλλ᾽ ἐλοιδόρησα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1171; οὐδὲν οὐδένα λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 174c; λ. ἔνια 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1128a31: with a predicate added, [τὴν Τύχην] λ. τυφλήν)] reproach fortune as blind, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.98a)]:—middle, rail at one another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 857, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.18:)] —passive, λοιδοροῦντας ἢ λοιδορουμένους reviling or reviled, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.47, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.29 O.)]; λελοιδορημένος ὑπὸ.. rebuked.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.29; οὐκ ἐν δίκη λοιδορηθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 275e, compare “Grg.” 457d.)]
II middle with aorist passive in active sense, with dative person, rail at, τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1400, “Pl.” 456, “Ec.” 248, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 395d, etc.; also λ. ἐπί τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 7.3)]; τινος [LXX+2nd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 1.6; εἴς τινα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 22; πρός τινα LXX.Exo.17.2: with _accusative_ _cognate_, πάντα τὰ αἰσχρὰ λοιδορέονται, ὅτι)].. they use all kind of foul reproaches, saying that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.184; λοιδορίαν ἣν ἐλοιδορήθη Κρατίνῳ περὶ τούτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.132.)]—active never has dative except in later Gr., [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Exo.17.2, LXX.2Mac.12.14, 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 34, 2nd c.AD(?): Antoninus Liberalis Mythographus 22.5; in 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.67)] (ἠναντιώθην καὶ ἀντεῖπον —καὶ ἐλοιδόρησα—ἐκείνῳ ὧν ἦν ἄξιος) the dative (if correct) depends on the other verbs; as does the accusative in οὓς ὕβριζες καὶ ἐλοιδοροῦ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Dem.fragment” (a).)] —Only the active is found in Trag.