noun · feminine
loidorias
Strong’sG3059
reviling, abuse
stem loidori-3 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.
λοιδορία, -ας, ἡ
(< λοιδορέω), [in LXX chiefly for רִיב, מְרִיבָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3059 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidloy-dor-ee'-ah
slander or vituperation
Fromfrom G3060;
King Jamesrailing, reproach(-fully).
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
railing, abuse, reproach, 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.
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 | loidorias | loidoriais |
| object accusative | loidorian1×λοιδορίαν | loidoriain |
| direct address vocative | loidoriar | loidoriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | loidoriau2×λοιδορίας | loidoriaiu |
| to, for dative | loidoria | loidoriai |
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
loidoria 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
loidorian“insult”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Peter 3:9mē apodōarōntois kakosem anti kakoseu ē loidorian anti loidoriau tounantion de eulogarōntois, hoti …… not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because …
loidoriau“insult”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
1 Timothy 5:14“reproach”… oikodespotarō, mēdenan aforman dōarō to antikeiorōnto loidoriau charin;… children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
1 Peter 3:9… kakosem anti kakoseu ē loidorian anti loidoriau tounantion de eulogarōntois, hoti eis houtem …… evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this …