Original Word: περιφρονέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: periphroneó
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-fron-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I look down upon, despise
Definition: I look down upon, despise.

4065 periphronéō (from 4012 /perí, "all-around," and 5426 /phronéō, "exercising personal perspective") – properly, think all-around by considering from all sides which results however in "over-thinking" (injecting personal bias, used only in Tit 2:15).

STRONGS NT 4065: περιφρονέω

περιφρονέω, περιφρόνω;

1. to consider or examine on all sides (περί, III. 1), i. e. carefully, thoroughly (Aristophanes nub. 741).

2. (from περί, beyond, III. 2), to set oneself in thought beyond (exalt oneself in thought above) a person or thing; to contemn, despise: τίνος (cf. Kühner, § 419, 1 b. vol. 2, p. 325), Titus 2:15 (4 Macc. 6:9; 7:16; 14:1; Plutarch, others; τοῦ ζῆν, Plato, Ax., p. 372; Aeschines dial. Socrates 3, 22).

despise.

From peri and phroneo; to think beyond, i.e. Depreciate (contemn) -- despise.

see GREEK peri

see GREEK phroneo

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