diabolos

Strong’sG1228

slanderous, the Slanderer, the Devil

stem diabol-2 times in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

διάβολος, -ον

(< διαβάλλω, q.v.) [in LXX for שָׂטָן (as Jb 1:6), exc. Es 7:4 8:1 (צַר, צָרַר);]

slanderous, accusing falsely. As subst., ὁ, ἡ, δ.;

(a) generally (of. Es, ll. c.), a slanderer, false accuser: I Ti 3:6, 7 (CGT, in l., but v. infr.) 3:11, II Ti 3:3, Tit 2:3;

(b) as chiefly in LXX, of Satan, the Accuser, the Devil: Mt 4:1, 5, 8, 11 13:39 25:41, Lk 4:2, 3, 6, 13 8:12, Jo 13:2, Ac 10:38, Eph 4:27 6:11, I Ti 3:6, 7 (but v. supr.), II Ti 2:26, He 2:14, Ja 4:7, I Pe 5:8, Ju 9, Re 2:10 12:9, 12 20:2, 10; εἶναι ἐκ τοῦ δ., Jo 8:44, I Jo 3:8; τέκνα τοῦ δ., I Jo 3:10; υἱὸς, Ac 13:10; metaph., of Judas, Jo 6:70 (Cremer, 121; DCG, ii, 605).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1228 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddee-ab'-ol-os

a traducer; specially, Satan (compare )

Fromfrom G1225;

King Jamesfalse accuser, devil, slanderer.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

διάβολ-ος, ον,
slanderous, backbiting, γραῦς Refs 4th c.BC+: superlative -ώτατοςRefs 5th c.BC+; διάβολόν τι, aliquid invidiae, Refs 5th c.BC+
II substantive, slanderer, Refs 5th c.BC+; enemy, LXX: hence, = Sâtân,Refs; the Devil, NT
III adverb -λως injuriously, invidiously, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

devil2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	diabolos2×Διάβολος	diabolas	diabolem	diabolois	diabolais	diaboleim
object accusative	diabolon	diabolan		diaboloin	diabolain
direct address vocative	diabolor	diabolar		diaboloir	diabolair
of, belonging to genitive	diabolou	diabolau	diaboleu	diaboloiu	diabolaiu	diaboleiu
to, for dative	diabolo	diabola	diabole	diaboloi	diabolai	diabolei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

diabolstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

diabol is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

diabolos — διάβολος, slanderous, the Slanderer, the Devil

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

diabolos“devil”subjectnominative singular2×

Revelation 12:9… tos ofios tos archaios, tos kalorōntos Diabolos kai tos Satanos, tos planarōntos tan …… down — that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the …

Revelation 20:2… tos ofios tos archaios, hos atō Diabolos kai tos Satanos, kai data auton …… that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for …