STRONGS G1225:
διαβάλλω: 1 aorist passive
διεβλήθην:
1. properly,
to throw over or
across, to send over, (
τὶ διά τινος).
2. very often, from Herodotus down,
to traduce, calumniate, slander, accuse, defame (cf. Latin
perstringere, German
durchziehen, [
διά as it were from one to another; see
Winer, De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 17]), not only of those who bring a false charge against one (
διέβλητο πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀδίκως, Josephus, Antiquities
7, 11, 3), but also of those who disseminate the truth concerning a man, but do so maliciously, insidiously, with hostility [cf. Lucian's Essay de calumn. non temere credend.], (
Daniel 3:8,
Sept.;
Daniel 6:24 Theodot.); so
διεβλήθη αὐτῷ ὡς διασκορπίζων,
Luke 16:1 (with the dative of person to whom the charge is made, also in Herodotus 5, 35, et al.;
τινὰ πρός τινα, Herodotus 5, 96, et al.; followed by
ὡς with participle, Xenophon, Hell. 2, 3, 23; Plato, epistles 7, p. 334 a.). [Synonym: see
κατηγορέω.]
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Daniel
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3:8; 6:24
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Luke
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16:1