Word Summary
empaiktēs: a mocker, by implication a false teacher
Original Word: ἐμπαίκτηςTransliteration: empaiktēs
Phonetic Spelling: (emp-aheek-tace')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a mocker, by implication a false teacher
Meaning: a mocker, by implication a false teacher
Strong's Concordance
mocker, scoffer.
From empaizo; a derider, i.e. (by implication) a false teacher -- mocker, scoffer.
see GREEK empaizo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1703: ἐμπαίκτηςἐμπαίκτης (see
ἐν, III. 3),
ἐμπαικτου,
ὁ, (
ἐμπαίζω),
a mocker, a scoffer:
2 Peter 3:3;
Jude 1:18; playing like children,
Isaiah 3:4. Not used by secular authors.