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Strong's #1702 - ἐμπαίζω
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- to play with, trifle with
- to mock
- to delude, deceive
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ἐμπαίζω,
I fut. -ξομαι LXX Habakkuk 1:10 : pf. ἐμπέπαιχα ib. Numbers 22:29 : —
1. mock at, mock, τινί Hdt. 4.134; τινά PCair.PreIsa 3.10 (iv A.D.): abs., S. Ant. 799: — Pass., ψυχὴ ὑπό.. σωμάτων καὶ πραγμάτων ἐμπαιζομένη Ph. 1.568, cf. Luc. Trag. 333.
2. euphem. in mal. part., LXX Jd. 19.25.
3. Pass., to be deluded, Matthew 2:16, AP 10.56.2 (Pall.), Vett.Val. 16.14; to be defrauded, of the revenues, Cod.Just. 1.34.2.
II sport in or on, ὡς νεβρὸς χλοεραῖς ἐ. λείμακος ἡδοναῖς E. Ba. 866 (lyr.); τοῖς χοροῖσιν ἐ. to sport in the dance, Ar. Th. 975; τῷ γυμνασίῳ Luc. Lex. 5.
ἐμπαίζω (see ἐν, III. 3); imperfect ἐνέπαιζον; future ἐμπαιξω (Mark 10:34 for the more common ἐμπαιξοῦμαι and ἐμπαίξομαι); 1 aorist ἐνεπαιξα (for the older ἐνεπαισα); passive, 1 aorist ἐνεπαίχθην (Matthew 2:16, for the older ἐνεπαίσθην); 1 future ἐμπαιχθήσομαι; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 240f; Krüger, § 40 under the word παίζω; (Veitch, ibid.); Buttmann, 64f (56f)); to play in, τίνι, Psalm 103:26
a. to mock: absolutely, Matthew 20:19; Matthew 27:41; Mark 10:34; Mark 15:31; Luke 23:11; τίνι (Herodotus 4, 134), Matthew 27:29 (31); Mark 15:20; Luke 14:29; Luke 22:63; Luke 23:36; in passive Luke 18:32.
b. to delude, deceive, (Sophocles Ant. 799); in passive Matthew 2:16 (Jeremiah 10:15).
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ἐμ -παίζω ,
[in LXX for H5953 hithp., H7832, etc.;]
= Attic προσ -, καταπαίζω ,
to mock at, mock (Hdt.): c. dat., Matthew 27:29; Matthew 27:31, Mark 15:20, Luke 14:29; Luke 22:63; Luke 23:36; pass., Matthew 2:16, Luke 18:32; absol., Matthew 20:19; Matthew 27:41, Mark 10:34; Mark 15:31, Luke 23:11.†
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ἐμπαίζω is used = ";delude,"; as in Matthew 2:16 (cf. Jeremiah 10:15), in Anth. Pal. x. 56. 2 τοῖς ἐμπαιζομένοις ἄνδρασι ταῦτα λέγω. Cf. Vett. Valens p. 16.14 ἐμπαιζομένων ἀνθρώπων.
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