Original Word: διαβάλλω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: diaballó
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ab-al'-lo)
Short Definition: I slander, complain of, accuse
Definition: I thrust through, slander, complain of, accuse.

1225 diabállō – properly, "to throw across (back and forth), "either with rocks or words (with slander, gossip, used only in Lk 16:1). The word implies malice even if the thing said is true. 1228 /diábolos ('slanderer') is this same root and it is used even of women, 'she-devils' (1 Tim 3:11)" (WP, 2, 215).

STRONGS NT 1225: διαβάλλω

διαβάλλω: 1 aorist passive διεβλήθην:

1. properly, to throw over or across, to send over, (τί διά τίνος).

2. very often, from Herodotus down, to traduce, calumniate, slander, accuse, defame (cf. Latinperstringere, German durchziehen, διά as it were from one to another; see Winer, De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 17)), not only of those who bring a false charge against one (διεβλητο πρός αὐτόν ἀδίκως, Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 3), but also of those who disseminate the truth concerning a man, but do so maliciously, insidiously, with hostility (cf. Lucian's Essay de calumn. non temere credend.) (Daniel 3:8, the Sept.; Daniel 6:24 Theod.); so διεβλήθη αὐτῷ ὡς διασκορπίζων, Luke 16:1 (with the dative of person to whom the charge is made, also in Herodotus 5, 35, et al.; τινα πρός τινα, Herodotus 5, 96, et al.; followed by ὡς with participle, Xenophon, Hell. 2, 3, 23; Plato, epistles 7, p. 334 a.). (Synonym: see κατηγορέω.)

accuse.

From dia and ballo; (figuratively) to traduce -- accuse.

see GREEK dia

see GREEK ballo

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