Words the Bible translates as insult
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- oneidismosὀνειδισμόςreproach: the public insult and disgrace heaped on a person by hostile, shaming words.
- oneidizōὀνειδίζωto reproach: to throw a person's fault, real or alleged, in their face with words that shame them in front of others.
- hubrisὕβριςinsulting, humiliating mistreatment of a person: treatment deliberately meant to shame and degrade
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- the violent harm a storm inflicts: the battering damage of wind and sea on a ship
- atimazōἀτιμάζωto dishonor someone: to publicly deny a person the honor they are owed, treating them as worth nothing
- kalamכָּלַםto be shamed or to shame someone: to suffer or inflict public disgrace and loss of honor
- kelimmahכְּלִמָּהpublic disgrace: the humiliation of being dishonored before others, and the insults and abuse that bring it about.
- gadaphגָּדַףto attack someone with cutting, contemptuous words, and when God is the target, to blaspheme him
- enubrizōἐνυβρίζωto insultnot studied yet
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