Lexicon chleuazó: to jest, mock, jeer Original Word: χλευάζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chleuazó Phonetic Spelling: (khlyoo-ad'-zo) Short Definition: I mock, scoff Definition: I mock, scoff, jest, jeer. HELPS word-Studies 5512 xleuázō (from xleuē, "a joke") – properly, to joke (jest), i.e. to scoff (ridicule) using barbed humor and mocking jeers (used only in Ac 17:32). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom chleué (a jest) Definitionto jest, mock, jeer NASB Translationsneer (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5512: χλευάζωχλευάζω; imperfect ἐχλεύαζον; ( χλεύη, jesting, mockery); to deride, mock, jeer: Acts 2:13 Rec.; . (2 Macc. 7:27; Wis. 11:15; Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Polybius, Diodorus, Plutarch, Lucian, others) (Compare: διαχλευάζω.)
Strong's mock. From a derivative probably of cheilos; to throw out the lip, i.e. Jeer at -- mock. see GREEK cheilos |
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