διάβολος, -ον (διαβάλλω, which see) [in LXX for שָׂטָן (as Job.1:6), exc. Est.7:4 8:1 (צַר, צָרַר);]
slanderous, accusing falsely. As subst, ὁ, ἡ, δ; (a) generally (of. Es, ll. with),
a slanderer, false accuser: 1Ti.3:6, 7 (CGT, in l, but see infr.) 3:11, 2Ti.3:3, Tit.2:3; (b)
as chiefly in LXX, of Satan, the Accuser, the Devil: Mat.4:1, 5, 8, 11 13:39 25:41, Luk.4:2, 3, 6, 13 8:12, Jhn.13:2, Act.10:38, Eph.4:27 6:11, 1Ti.3:6, 7 (but see supr.), 2Ti.2:26, Heb.2:14, Jas.4:7, 1Pe.5:8, Ju 9, Rev.2:10 12:9, 12 20:2, 10; εἶναι ἐκ τοῦ δ, Jhn.8:44, 1Jn.3:8; τέκνα τοῦ δ, 1Jn.3:10; υἱὸς, Act.13:10; metaphorically, of Judas, Jhn.6:70 (Cremer, 121;
DCG, ii, 605). (
AS)