Word Summary
empaigmos: mockery
Original Word: ἐμπαιγμόςTransliteration: empaigmos
Phonetic Spelling: (emp-aheeg-mos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: mockery
Meaning: mockery
Strong's Concordance
mocking.
From empaizo; derision -- mocking.
see GREEK empaizo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1701: ἐμπαιγμονῇἐμπαιγμονῇ (see
ἐν, III. 3),
ἐμπαιγμονης,
ἡ, (
ἐμπαίζω),
derision, mockery:
2 Peter 3:3 G L T Tr WH. Not found elsewhere.
STRONGS NT 1701: ἐμπαιγμόςἐμπαιγμός (see ἐν, III. 3), ἐμπαιγμου, ὁ, (ἐμπαίζω), unknown to secular authors, a mocking, scoffing: Hebrews 11:36; Ezekiel 22:4; Sir. 27:23; Wis. 12:25; (Psalm 37:8 ()); torture inflicted in mockery, 2 Macc. 7:7 (etc.).