3075. lumainomai

Strong's Lexicon

lumainomai: To harm, to damage, to mistreat, to destroy

Original Word: λυμαίνομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: lumainomai
Pronunciation: loo-MY-nom-ahee
Phonetic Spelling: (loo-mah'-ee-nom-ahee)
Definition: To harm, to damage, to mistreat, to destroy
Meaning: I outrage, maltreat, corrupt, defile.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from lumé (outrage)
Definition
to outrage, to corrupt
NASB Translation
ravaging (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3075: λυμαίνομαι

λυμαίνομαι: imperfect ἐλυμαινομην; deponent middle; (λύμη injury, ruin, contumely); from Aeschylus and Herodotus down;

1. to affix a stigma to, to dishonor, spot, defile (Ezekiel 16:25; Proverbs 23:8; 4 Macc. 18:8).

2. to treat shamefully or with injury, to ravage, devastate, ruin: ἐλυμαίνετο τήν ἐκκλησίαν, said of Saul as the cruel and violent persecutor (A. V. made havock of), Acts 8:3.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

to ravage, destroy

Middle voice from a probably derivative of luo (meaning filth); properly, to soil, i.e. (figuratively) insult (maltreat) -- make havock of.

see GREEK luo

Forms and Transliterations

ελυμαινετο ελυμαίνετο ἐλυμαίνετο ελυμήναντό ελυμήνατο ελυμήνω λυμαίνεται λυμαίνοιτο λυμαινόμενος λυμαινομένου λυμανείται λυμανούνται λυμήνη elumaineto elymaineto elymaíneto

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 8:3 V-IIM/P-3S
GRK: Σαῦλος δὲ ἐλυμαίνετο τὴν ἐκκλησίαν
NAS: But Saul [began] ravaging the church,
KJV: for Saul, he made havock of the church,
INT: Saul however was destroying the church

Strong's Greek 3075
1 Occurrence

ἐλυμαίνετο — 1 Occ.