GREEK · G2725
κατήγορος
katēgoros — accuser
κατήγορος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX: Pro.18:17 (רִיב), 2Ma.4:5 * ;] an accuser: Act.23:30, 35 24:8 (WH, R, txt. om.) Act.25:16, 18.† (AS)
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Accuser
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G1228
διάβολος
diabolos — devilish/the Devil
διάβολος, -ον (διαβάλλω, which see) [in LXX for שָׂטָן (as Job.1:6), exc. Est.7:4 8:1 (צַר, צָרַר) ;] 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.) 3:11, 2Ti.3:3, Tit.2:3; (b) as chiefly in LXX, of Satan, the Accuser, the Devil: 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 (but see supr.), 2Ti.2:26, Heb.2:14, Jas.4:7, 1Pe.5:8, Ju 9, Rev.2:10 12:9, 12 20:2, 10; εἶναι ἐκ τοῦ δ., Jhn.8:44, 1Jn.3:8; τέκνα τοῦ δ., 1Jn.3:10; υἱὸς, Act.13:10; metaphorically, of Judas, Jhn.6:70 (Cremer, 121; DCG, ii, 605).† (AS)
35 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6051
κατήγωρ
katēgōr — an accuser
κατήγωρ, ὁ (Aram. קָטִיגוֺר; Dalman, Gr., 185; but see Deiss., LAE, 90 f.), = κατήγορος, an accuser: Rev.12:10.† (AS)
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κατεντευκτής
katenteuktēs — an accuser
an accuser
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συκοφάντης
sukophantēs — an extortioner
a false accuser, slanderer , (Aristophanes Comicus), etc.; (never used in the modern sense of sycophant , i. e. κόλαξ); generally, a false adviser , (Demosthenes Orator) (Commonly derived from σῦκον, φαίνω, one who informed against persons exporting figs from Attica: better perhaps a fig-shewer , i. e. one who brings figs to light by shaking the tree (the figs having been hidden in the thick foliage); and then, metaphorically, one who makes rich men yield up their fruit by false accusations). (ML)
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Satan is styled the “accuser of the brethren” (Rev. 12:10. Comp. Job 1:6; Zech. 3:1), as seeking to uphold his influence among men by bringing false charges against Christians, with the view of weakening their influence and injuring the cause with which they are identified. He was regarded by the Jews as the accuser of men before God, laying to their charge the violations of the law of which they were guilty, and demanding their punishment. The same Greek word, rendered “accuser,” is found in John 8:10 (but omitted in the Revised Version); Acts 23:30, 35; 24:8; 25:16, 18, in all of which places it is used of one who brings a charge against another.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.