noun · feminine
katalalias
Strong’sG2636
evil-speaking, backbiting, detraction
stem katalali-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
**† κατα-λαλιά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< κατάλαλος), [in LXX: Wi 1:11*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2636 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-al-al-ee'-ah
defamation
Fromfrom G2637;
King Jamesbackbiting, evil speaking.
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
evil report, slander, 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 | katalalias | katalaliais1×καταλαλιαί |
| object accusative | katalalian | katalaliain1×καταλαλιάς |
| direct address vocative | katalaliar | katalaliair |
| of, belonging to genitive | katalaliau | katalaliaiu |
| to, for dative | katalalia | katalaliai |
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
katalalia 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
katalaliais“slander”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Corinthians 12:20… mē pōs eridas, zēlos, thumois, eritheiais, katalaliais, psithurismois, fusiōsiais, akatastasiais;… may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
katalaliain“slander”objectaccusative plural1×
1 Peter 2:1… kai hupokrisiain kai fthonoin kai pantain katalaliain,… all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.