Kakologeo means “curse” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2551 — chemlah (“merciful”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2551 κακολογέω (kakologeo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kakologeo (kak-ol-og-eh'-o) v. 1. to revile [from a compound of G2556 and G3056] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include speak and evil. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kakologeo (kak-ol-og-eh'-o) v. 1. to revile [from a compound of G2556 and G3056] KJV: curse, speak evil of Root(s): G2556, G3056
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2551. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to curse/revile
Usage: κακολογέω, -ῶ (κακολόγος, slanderous), [in LXX: Exo.21:16 22:28, 1Ki.3:13, Pro.20:20, Eze.22:7 (קָלַל pi., hi.), 2Ma.4:1 * ;] to speak ill of, revile, abuse: with accusative of person(s), Mat.15:4, Mrk.7:10" (LXX) Mrk.9:39; with accusative of thing(s), Act.19:9.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kakologeo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2551 (κακολογέω) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor speak ill of the ruler of thy people.
And I have told him that I will be avenged on his house perpetually for the iniquities of his sons, because his sons spoke evil against God, and he did not admonish them.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
This Simon now, of whom we spoke afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2551.
He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor speak ill of the ruler of thy people.
And I have told him that I will be avenged on his house perpetually for the iniquities of his sons, because his sons spoke evil against God, and he did not admonish them.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
This Simon now, of whom we spoke afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2551, grouped by book.
Kakologeo (Strong's G2551) is a Greek word most simply glossed "curse". kakologeo (kak-ol-og-eh'-o) v. 1. to revile [from a compound of G2556 and G3056]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G2551 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2551 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as speak and evil. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2551, with linked reader references where each row is available.