Strong's Concordance
chleuazó: to jest, mock, jeer
Original Word: χλευάζωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: chleuazó
Phonetic Spelling: (khlyoo-ad'-zo)
Short Definition: I mock, scoff
Definition: I mock, scoff, jest, jeer.
HELPS Word-studies
5512 xleuázō (from xleuē, "a joke") – properly, to joke (jest), i.e. to scoff (ridicule) using barbed humor and mocking jeers (used only in Ac 17:32).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5512: χλευάζωχλευάζω; imperfect
ἐχλεύαζον; (
χλεύη, jesting, mockery);
to deride, mock, jeer:
Acts 2:13 Rec.;
