Original: διάβολος

Transliteration: diábolos

Phonetic: dee-ab'-ol-os

Short Definition: False accuser

- Original: διάβολος

- Transliteration: Diabolos

- Phonetic: dee-ab'-ol-os

- Definition:

1. prone to slander, slanderous, accusing falsely

a. a calumniator, false accuser, slanderer,

2. metaph. applied to a man who, by opposing the cause of God, may be said to act the part of the devil or to side with him

- Origin: from G1225

- TDNT entry: 03:12,1

- Part(s) of speech: Adjective

- Strong's: From G1225; a traducer; specifically Satan (compare [H7854]): - false accuser devil slanderer.

Cognate: G1225