λοιδορέω
to revile
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
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”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where G3058 appears in the Present tense, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
1 Peter 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.
λοιδορεω (loidoréō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to revile.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. It concentrates in John, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. It first appears in John 9:28. From the same root come λοιδορος and λοιδορια. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3058 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 1 verse 25%
- Acts 1 verse 25%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 25%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 25%
- Johannine 1 verse · 25%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 25%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 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: Being reviled 1×, He was reviled 1×, Revilest thou 1×
- American Standard Version: Being reviled 1×, He was reviled 1×, Revilest 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: How dare you insult 1×, They heaped abuse on him 1×, They heaped insults on 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Being reviled 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3058 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3058 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3058 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3058 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 reproach, rail at, revile, heap abuse upon
Word origin
Derived from λοιδορος (loídoros) (G3060) — reviler.
From G3060 ; to reproach that is vilify : - revile.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3058 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λοιδορεῖς loidoreîs | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Acts 23:4 | 1 |
| λοιδορούμενοι loidoroúmenoi | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 4:12 | 1 |
| λοιδορούμενος loidoroúmenos | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 2:23 | 1 |
| ἐλοιδόρησαν eloidórēsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 9:28 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3058, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λοιδορεω appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 5 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 49:23 λοιδορέω
- Exodus 17:2 λοιδορέω
- Numbers 20:3 λοιδορέω
- Deuteronomy 33:8 λοιδορέω
- Proverbs 25:24 λοιδορέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3058) 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.
- Genesis 49:23 λοιδορέω The archers have sorely grieved him, Shot at him, and persecute him:
- Exodus 17:2 λοιδορέω Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
- Exodus 21:18 λοιδορέω "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;
- Numbers 20:3 λοιδορέω The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
- Numbers 20:13 λοιδορέω These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
- Deuteronomy 33:8 λοιδορέω Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, Whom you did prove at Massah, With whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;
- Proverbs 25:24 λοιδορέω It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3058) 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.
