Original Word: ἐκμυκτηρίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ekmuktérizó
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-mook-ter-id'-zo)
Definition: to hold up the nose in derision of
Usage: I deride, scoff at, mock greatly.

1592 ekmyktērízō (from 1537 /ek, "out of" and 3456 /myktērízō, "to blow the nose," see there) – properly, turn the nose out (up), i.e. sneer, scoff; (figuratively) scornfully reject ("blow someone off"), like expelling mucus out of the nose.

Word Origin
from ek and muktérizó
Definition
to hold up the nose in derision of
NASB Translation
scoffing (1), sneering (1).

STRONGS NT 1592: ἐκμυκτηρίζω

ἐκμυκτηρίζω: imperfect ἐξεμυκτήριζον; to deride by turning up the nose, to sneer at, scoff at: τινα, Luke 16:14; Luke 23:35. (For לָעַג, Psalm 2:4; (Psalm 34:16 ()); 2 Kings 19:21 (here the simple verb); 1 Esdr. 1:49 Alex.; Ev. Nicod. c. 10. Secular writings use the simple verb (from μυκτήρ the nose); (cf. Winer's Grammar, 25).)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

deride.

From ek and mukterizo; to sneer outright at -- deride.

see GREEK ek

see GREEK mukterizo

Forms and Transliterations

εκμυκτηριεί εξεμυκτηριζον εξεμυκτήριζον ἐξεμυκτήριζον εξεμυκτήρισαν εξεμυκτήρισάν exemukterizon exemuktērizon exemykterizon exemyktērizon exemyktḗrizon

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