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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #2606 - καταγελάω

Transliteration

katageláō

Phonetics

kat-ag-el-ah'-o

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

1:658,113

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to deride

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 1961 ‑ הָיָה (haw‑yaw'); 2659 ‑ חָפַר (khaw‑fare'); 3932 ‑ לָעַג (law‑ag'); 5970 ‑ עָלַץ (aw‑lats'); 7832 ‑ שָׂחַק (saw‑khak');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (6)

Matthew 2

Mark 2

Luke 2

NAS (3)

Matthew 1

Mark 1

Luke 1

HCS (3)

Matthew 1

Mark 1

Luke 1

BSB (3)

Matthew 1

Mark 1

Luke 1

ESV (3)

Matthew 1

Mark 1

Luke 1

WEB (5)

Matthew 1

Mark 2

Luke 2

KJV (6)

laughed 3

scorn 3

NAS (3)

laughing 3

HCS (3)

They started laughing at 2

they started laughing at 1

BSB (3)

they laughed at 3

ESV (3)

laughed 3

WEB (5)

They ridiculed 1

nbsp 2

were ridiculing 2

RAH

V-AAD3P 2

V-AAI3P 1

V-APS1P 1

V-FAI2P 1

V-FAI3S 1

V-FMI2S 1

V-FPI3P 1

V-PAI3S 2

V-PAPASM 1

V-PAPNPM 1

V-PAPNSM 2

V-PMI3P 1

V-PMI3S 1

ANT

V-IAI-3P 3

BEZ

V-IAI-3P 3

BGB

V-IIA-3P 3

BMT

V-IAI-3P 3

BYZ

V-IAI-3P 3

ELZ

V-IAI-3P 3

NA26

V-IAI-3P 3

SBL

V-3IAIP 3

SCV

V-IAI-3P 3

STV

V-IAI-3P 3

TIS

V-IAI-3P 3

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

καταγελάω,

fut. -άσομαι Lys. 3.9, late -γελάσω Hsch. s.v. κατακριδεύσει: —

Pass., fut. -γελασθήσομαι Epict. Ench. 22: pf. -γεγέλασμαι Luc. DMort. 1.1: plpf. κατεγεγέλαστο Id. Icar. 19: —

1. laugh, jeer at, c. gen., Hdt. 5.68, Ar. Ach. 1081, And. 4.29, Pl. Grg. 482d: also c. dat., Hdt. 3.37, 4.79, al.: abs., laugh scornfully, mock, E. IA 372 (troch.), Ar. Eq. 161, X. An. 1.9.13, Pl. Prt. 319c, D. 21.151; ἅπαντες καταγελῶσιν, ὅταν τις.. Epicur. Nat. 28.9; ἐπί τινι Them. Or. 22.272b.

2. c. acc., laugh down, deride, E. Ba. 286, LXX Si. 7.11: — Pass., to be derided, ὑπό τινος A. Ag. 1271, Ar. Ach. 680; καταγελάμενος (Dor. pres. part. Pass.) ὑπὸ τῶν ἄλλων IG 4.951.123 (Epid.); τὸ εὔηθες καταγελασθὲν ἠφανίσθη Th. 3.83; τὸ καταγελᾶσθαι γὰρ πολὺ αἴσχιόν ἐστι Men. Epit.Fr. 7, cf. Pl. Euthphr. 3c, al.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

καταγελάω, καταγέλω: imperfect 3 person plural κατεγέλων; to deride (A. V. laugh to scorn): τίνος, anyone (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 15), Matthew 9:24; Mark 5:40; Luke 8:53. (From (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down; the Sept..)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

κατα -γελάω , -ῶ ,

[in LXX chiefly for H7832, Job 5:22, Proverbs 29:9, al.;]

to deride, laugh scornfully at: c. gen. pers., Matthew 9:24, Mark 5:40, Luke 8:53.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

BGU III. 814.21 (iii/A.D.) πάντες καταγελω ̣σί μοι —so a soldier writes complainingly to his mother, because his father had visited him, but given him no gifts. Syll 802.122 (iii/B.C.) αἰσχυνόμενος δ [ὲ ἅτε ] καταγελάμενος ὑπ [ὸ ] τῶν ἄλλων ἐνε [κάθε ]υδε —with reference to a man who, having no hair on his head, sought healing in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus : cf. ib..35 διεγέλα, which is perfective like κατεγέλων in Mark 5:40.

List of Word Forms

καταγελά καταγελάσατωσάν καταγελάσεται καταγελάση καταγελασθήσονται καταγελασθώμεν καταγελάται καταγελών καταγελώντα καταγελώνται καταγελώντες καταγέλωτα καταγηράσητε καταγίνομαι κατεγέλασάν κατεγελων κατεγέλων κατεγενόμην κατεγίνοντο kategelon kategelōn kategélon kategélōn