{"id":15187,"date":"2022-09-28T04:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T09:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/accusation-accuse\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T04:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T09:26:27","slug":"accusation-accuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/accusation-accuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Accusation, Accuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Accusation, Accuse<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> probably has the primary meaning of &#8220;a cause, especially an occasion of something evil, hence a charge, an accusation.&#8221; It is used in a forensic sense, of (a) an accusation, <span class='bible'>Act 25:18<\/span> (RV, &#8220;charge&#8221;), <span class='bible'>Act 25:27<\/span>; (b) a crime, <span class='bible'>Mat 27:37<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 15:26<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 18:38<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 19:4<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Joh 19:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 13:28<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 23:28<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 28:18<\/span>. See CASE, CAUSE, CHARGE, CRIME, FAULT. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;an accusation,&#8221; expressing No. 1 more concretely, is found in <span class='bible'>Act 25:7<\/span>, RV, &#8220;charges,&#8221; for AV, &#8220;complaints.&#8221; See COMPLAINT. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> is &#8220;an accusation made in public,&#8221; but not necessarily before a tribunal. That is the case in <span class='bible'>Act 23:29<\/span>, &#8220;laid to his charge.&#8221; In <span class='bible'>Act 25:16<\/span> it signifies a matter of complaint; hence, the RV has &#8220;the matter laid against him&#8221; (AV, &#8220;crime&#8221;). See CHARGE, CRIME. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;an accusation,&#8221; is found in <span class='bible'>Joh 18:29<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Ti 5:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Tit 1:6<\/span>, lit., &#8220;not under accusation.&#8221; This and the verb kategoreo, &#8220;to accuse,&#8221; and the noun kategoros, &#8220;an accuser&#8221; (see below), all have chiefly to do with judicial procedure, as distinct from diaballo, &#8220;to slander.&#8221; It is derived from agora, &#8220;a place of public speaking,&#8221; prefixed by kata, &#8220;against;&#8221; hence, it signifies a speaking against a person before a public tribunal. It is the opposite to apologia, &#8220;a defense.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Note: Krisis, which has been translated &#8220;accusation,&#8221; in the AV of <span class='bible'>2Pe 2:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jud 1:9<\/span> (RV, &#8220;judgement&#8221;), does not come under this category. It signifies &#8220;a judgment, a decision given concerning anything.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> used in <span class='bible'>Luk 16:1<\/span>, in the Passive Voice, lit. signifies &#8220;to hurl across&#8221; (dia, &#8220;through,&#8221; ballo, &#8220;to throw&#8221;), and suggests a verbal assault. It stresses the act rather than the author, as in the case of aitia and kategoria. Diabolos is connected. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> see A, No. 3, &#8220;to bring a charge against, or to come forward as an accuser against,&#8221; lit. denotes &#8220;to call in&#8221; (en, &#8220;in,&#8221; kaleo, &#8220;to call&#8221;), i.e., &#8220;to call (something) in or against (someone);&#8221; hence, &#8220;to call to account, to accuse,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Act 19:38<\/span>, RV (AV, &#8220;implead&#8221;); in <span class='bible'>Act 19:40<\/span>, &#8220;accused&#8221; (AV, &#8220;call in question&#8221;). It is used in four other places in the Acts, <span class='bible'>Act 23:28-29<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 26:2<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Act 26:7<\/span>, and elsewhere in <span class='bible'>Rom 8:33<\/span>, &#8220;shall lay to the charge.&#8221; See CALL, IMPLEAD. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> besides its more ordinary meaning, &#8220;to insult, treat abusively, despitefully,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Luk 6:28<\/span>, has the forensic significance &#8220;to accuse falsely,&#8221; and is used with this meaning in <span class='bible'>1Pe 3:16<\/span>, RV, &#8220;revile.&#8221; See DESPITEFULLY, REVILE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;to speak against, accuse&#8221; (cp. A, No. 4), is used (a) in a general way, &#8220;to accuse,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Luk 6:7<\/span>, RV, &#8220;how to accuse;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Rom 2:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rev 12:10<\/span>; (b) before a judge, e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 12:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 15:4<\/span> (RV, &#8220;witness against&#8221;); <span class='bible'>Act 22:30<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 25:16<\/span>. In <span class='bible'>Act 24:19<\/span>, RV renders it &#8220;make accusation,&#8221; for the AV, &#8220;object.&#8221; See OBJECT, WITNESS. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> (Eng., &#8220;sycophant&#8221;) means (a) &#8220;to accuse wrongfully;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Luk 3:14<\/span> (AV and RV, margin); RV, &#8220;exact wrongfully;&#8221; (b) &#8220;to exact money wrongfully, to take anything by false accusation,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Luk 19:8<\/span>, and the RV text of <span class='bible'>Luk 3:14<\/span>. It is more frequently found in the Sept.; see <span class='bible'>Gen 43:18<\/span>, &#8220;to inform against;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Lev 19:11<\/span>, &#8220;neither shall each falsely accuse his neighbor;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Job 35:9<\/span>, &#8220;they that are oppressed by false accusation;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Psa 119:122<\/span>, &#8220;let not the proud accuse me falsely;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Pro 14:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Pro 22:16<\/span> &#8220;he that oppresses the needy by false accusation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> The word is derived from sukon, &#8220;a fig,&#8221; and phaino, &#8220;to show.&#8221; At Athens a man whose business it was to give information against anyone who might be detected exporting figs out of the province, is said to have been called a sukophantes (see Note (2) below). Probably, however, the word was used to denote one who brings figs to light by shaking the tree, and then in a metaphorical sense one who makes rich men yield up their fruit by &#8220;false accusation.&#8221; Hence in general parlance it was used to designate &#8220;a malignant informer,&#8221; one who accused from love of gain. See EXACT. <\/p>\n<p> Note: Proaitiaomai denotes &#8220;to bring a previous charge against,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Rom 3:9<\/span>, RV. See CHARGE. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accusation, Accuse probably has the primary meaning of &#8220;a cause, especially an occasion of something evil, hence a charge, an accusation.&#8221; It is used in a forensic sense, of (a) an accusation, Act 25:18 (RV, &#8220;charge&#8221;), Act 25:27; (b) a crime, Mat 27:37; Mar 15:26; Joh 18:38; Joh 19:4, Joh 19:6; Act 13:28; Act 23:28; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/accusation-accuse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Accusation, Accuse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}