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Strong's #1228 - διάβολος
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- prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely
- a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer,
- metaph. applied to a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part of the devil or to side with him
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διάβολ-ος, ον,
I slanderous, backbiting, γραῦς Men. 878, cf. Phld. Lib. p.24O.: Sup. -ώτατος Ar. Eq. 45; διάβολόν τι, aliquid invidiae, And. 2.24; τὸ δ. Plu. 2.61d.
II Subst., slanderer, Pi. Fr. 297, Arist. Top. 126a31, Ath. 11.508d; enemy, LXX Ezra 7:4, LXX Ezra 8:1 : hence, = Sâtân, ib. 1 Chronicles 21:1; the Devil, Matthew 4:1, etc.
III Adv. -λως injuriously, invidiously, Th. 6.15; χρῆσθαί τινι Procop. Arc. 2.
διάβολος, διάβολον (διαβάλλω which see), prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely, (Aristophanes, Andocides (
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διάβολος , -ον
(<διαβάλλω , q.v.),
[in LXX for H7854 (as Job 1:6), exc. Ezra 7:4; Ezra 8:1 (H6862, H6887);]
slanderous, accusing falsely. As subst., ὁ , ἡ , δ .;
(a) generally (of. Es, ll. c.), a slanderer, false accuser: 1 Timothy 3:6-7 (CGT, in l, but v. infr.) 1 Timothy 3:11, 2 Timothy 3:3, Titus 2:3;
(b) as chiefly in LXX, of Satan, the Accuser, the Devil: Matthew 4:1; Matthew 4:5; Matthew 4:8; Matthew 4:11; Matthew 13:39; Matthew 25:41, Luke 4:2-3; Luke 4:6; Luke 4:12; Luke 8:12, John 13:2, Acts 10:38, Ephesians 4:27; Ephesians 6:11, 1 Timothy 3:6-7 (but v. supr.), 2 Timothy 2:26, Hebrews 2:14, James 4:7, 1 Peter 5:8, Judges 1:9, Revelation 2:10; Revelation 12:9; Revelation 12:12; Revelation 20:2; Revelation 20:10; εἶναι ἐκ τοῦ δ ., John 8:44, 1 John 3:8; τέκνα τοῦ δ ., 1 John 3:10; υἱὸς , Acts 13:10; metaph., of Judas, John 6:70 (Cremer, 121; DCG, ii, 605).†
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The word is found in an obscure context in P Lond 418.19 (c. A.D. 346) (= II. p. 303).
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