- διάβολος
- slanderous, backbiting
- διάβολος
- slanderous, the Slanderer, the Devil
- (adj. used often as a noun), slanderous; with the article: the Slanderer (par excellence), the Devil.
- διάβολος
- devilish/the Devil
- G:A
- διάβολος, -ον
(< διαβάλλω, which see) [in LXX for שָׂטָן (as Job.1:6), exc.(צַר, צָרַר) ;]Refs
Est.7:4 8:1
slanderous, accusing falsely. As subst., ὁ, ἡ, δ.;
__(a) generally (of. Es, ll. with), a slanderer, false accuser: 1Ti.3:6, 7 (CGT, in l., but see infr.);Refs
3:11, 2Ti.3:3, Tit.2:3
__(b) as chiefly in LXX, of Satan, the Accuser, the Devil:(but see supr.),Refs
Mat.4:1, 5, 8, 11 13:39 25:41, Luk.4:2, 3, 6, 13 8:12, Jhn.13:2, Act.10:38, Eph.4:27 6:11, 1Ti.3:6, 7; εἶναι ἐκ τοῦ δ.,Refs
2Ti.2:26, Heb.2:14, Jas.4:7, 1Pe.5:8, Ju 9, Rev.2:10 12:9, 12 20:2, 10; τέκνα τοῦ δ., 1Jn.3:10; υἱὸς, Act.13:10; metaph., of Judas, Jhn.6:70 (Cremer, 121; DCG, ii, 605).†Refs
Jhn.8:44, 1Jn.3:8
(AS)
1) prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely
1a) a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer,
2) 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 himSatan the prince of the demons, the author of evil, persecuting good men, estranging mankind from God and enticing them to sin, afflicting them with diseases by means of demons who take possession of their bodies at his bidding.
1a) a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer,
2) 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 himSatan the prince of the demons, the author of evil, persecuting good men, estranging mankind from God and enticing them to sin, afflicting them with diseases by means of demons who take possession of their bodies at his bidding.