Word Summary
katagelaō: to deride
Original Word: καταγελάωTransliteration: katagelaō
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ag-el-ah'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to deride
Meaning: to deride
Strong's Concordance
laugh at, scorn.
To laugh down, i.e. Deride -- laugh to scorn.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2606: καταγελάωκαταγελάω,
καταγέλω: imperfect 3 person plural
κατεγέλων;
to deride (
A. V. laugh to scorn):
τίνος, anyone (cf.
Buttmann, § 132, 15),
Matthew 9:24;
Mark 5:40;
Luke 8:53. (From (
Aeschylus and)
Herodotus down; the
Sept..)