noun · masculine
empaiktos
Strong’sG1703
a mocker
stem empaikt-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.
† ἐμ-παίκτης, -ου, ὁ
(< ἐμπαίζω, q.v.), [in LXX: Is 3:4 (ִתַּעֲלוּלִים) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1703 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidemp-aheek-tace'
a derider, i.e. (by implication) a false teacher
Fromfrom G1702;
King Jamesmocker, scoffer.
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
mocker, deceiver, LXX+NT
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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | empaiktos | empaiktois2×ἐμπαῖκται |
| object accusative | empaikton | empaiktoin |
| direct address vocative | empaiktor | empaiktoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | empaiktou | empaiktoiu |
| to, for dative | empaikto | empaiktoi |
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
empaikto 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
empaiktois“scoffers”subjectnominative plural2×
2 Peter 3:3… epi eschataiu taiu hēmeraiu en empaigmona empaiktois kata tain idiain epithumiain autoiu poreuorōntois… understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their …
Jude 1:18… legale vi; Epi eschatou chronou eli empaiktois kata tain heautoiu epithumiain poreuorōntois taiu …… the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own …