Rail, Railing, Railer
Rail, Railing, Railer
ral, raling, raler: To rail on (in modern usage against) anyone is to use insolent or reproachful language toward one. It occurs in the Old Testament as the translation of , haraph (2Ch 32:17, letters to rail on Yahweh), and of , t (1Sa 25:14, of Nabal, he railed at them, the English Revised Version flew upon them, margin railed on). In the New Testament to rail is the translation of , blasphemeo (Mar 15:29; Luk 23:39; railing, 1Ti 6:4; 2Pe 2:11; Jud 1:9). The word loidora, rendered railing in 1Pe 3:9 the King James Version, is in the Revised Version (British and American) reviling, and lodoros, railor, in 1Co 5:11 is in the Revised Version (British and American) reviler. See also RACA.