Periphroneo means “despise” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4065 — madduach (“cause of banishment”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4065 περιφρονέω (periphroneo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. periphroneo (per-ee-fron-eh'-o) v. 1. to think beyond, i.e. depreciate (contemn) [from G4012 and G5426] It has 5 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include despise. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
periphroneo (per-ee-fron-eh'-o) v. 1. to think beyond, i.e. depreciate (contemn) [from G4012 and G5426] KJV: despise Root(s): G4012, G5426
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4065. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to despise
Usage: περι-φρονέω, -ῶ [in LXX: 4Ma.6:9 4Mac 14:1 * ;] __1. to examine on all sides, consider carefully (Aristoph.). __2. = ὑπερφρονέω, to have thouphts beyond, to despise (Thuc., Plut., al.; 4Mac, ll. with) : Tit.2:15.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render periphroneo, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. 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 G4065 (περιφρονέω) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities;
If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4065.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities;
If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.
And more than this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4065, grouped by book.
Periphroneo (Strong's G4065) is a Greek word most simply glossed "despise". periphroneo (per-ee-fron-eh'-o) v. 1. to think beyond, i.e. depreciate (contemn) [from G4012 and G5426]
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G4065 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4065 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as despise. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4065, with linked reader references where each row is available.