ἐξουθενέω
to despise
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 12 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (8%)
+4 more forms (4 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1848 appears — 12 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Mark 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 18:9 ἐξουθενοῦντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
- Luke 23:11 ἐξουθενήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
Acts 1 verse
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 14:3 ἐξουθενείτω pres act impv 3sg Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.
- Romans 14:10 ἐξουθενεῖς pres act ind 2sg But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 1:28 ἐξουθενημένα perf pass ptcp acc pl neut and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
- 1 Corinthians 6:4 ἐξουθενημένους perf pass ptcp acc pl masc If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
- 1 Corinthians 16:11 ἐξουθενήσῃ aor act subj 3sg Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, εξουθενεω (exouthenéō) means “to despise.” Scripture first uses it in Mark 9:12. It turns up in 12 verses across 8 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to 1 Corinthians (25%), then Luke and Romans. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1848 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 3 verses 25%
- Luke 2 verses 17%
- Romans 2 verses 17%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 67%
- Gospels 3 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Despise 3×, Let 2×
- American Standard Version: Despise 2×, Let 2×, Nought 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Account 1×, Belittle 1×, Despised 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Despise 4×, Let 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1848 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1848 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1848 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1848 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to make of no account, despise utterly
Word origin
Derived from εξουδενοω (exoudenóō) (G1847) — to despise.
A variation of G1847 and meaning the same : - contemptible despise least esteemed set at nought.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms G1848 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εξουθενεω appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 3 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 2:30 ἐκοὑθενέω
- Jeremiah 6:14 ἐξοὐθενέω
- Daniel 4:24 ἐκοὐθενέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1848) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 2:30 ἐκοὑθενέω Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
- 1 Samuel 8:7 ἐκοὐθενέω Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
- 1 Samuel 10:19 ἐκοὐθενέω but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
- Jeremiah 6:14 ἐξοὐθενέω They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
- Daniel 4:24 ἐκοὐθενέω this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come on my lord the king:
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1848) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
