ΚΑΤΕΙΡΩΝΕΥΟΜΕΝΟΣ, κατειρωνευομενος
KATEIRŌNEUOMENOS, kateirōneuomenos
Sounds Like: kah-tee-roh-NEH-oo-meh-noss
Translations: mocking, ridiculing, ironically speaking, making fun of
From the root: ΚΑΤΕΙΡΩΝΕΥΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a compound verb, meaning to mock or ridicule someone, often with an element of irony or feigned ignorance. It describes the act of making fun of someone by pretending to be serious or by using subtle sarcasm. It is used to describe an action being performed by the subject of the sentence.
Inflection: Present Participle, Middle/Passive Voice, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G2692 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 3:7
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΕΙΡΩΝΕΥΟΜΑΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΤΕΙΡΩΝΕΥΟΜΑΙ — to mock, to ridicule, to scoff at, to treat with irony
- ΚΑΤΕΙΡΩΝΕΥΟΜΕΝΟΙ — mocking, deriding, scoffing at, making fun of
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