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Strong's #2606: katagelao (pronounced kat-ag-el-ah'-o)

to laugh down, i.e. deride:--laugh to scorn.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katagelaō

1) to deride

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Citing in TDNT: 1:658, 113




Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Matthew 9:24: "is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn."
Mark 5:40: "And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh"
Luke 8:53: "And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead."









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