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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - περιφρονέω

περιφρονέω

G4065

Transliteration: periphronéō

Pronunciation: per-ee-fron-eh'-o

Definition: despise


- Original: περιφρονέω

- Transliteration: Periphroneo

- Phonetic: per-ee-fron-eh'-o

- Definition:

1. to consider or examine on all sides i.e. carefully, thoroughly

2. to set one's self in thought beyond (exalt one's self in thought above) a person or a thing

3. to contemn, to despise

- Origin: from G4012" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4012 and G5426" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5426

- TDNT entry: 14:03,4

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G4012" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4012 and G5426" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5426; to think beyond that is depreciate (contemn): - despise.


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