κατηγορέω

kathgorevw kathgorevw,
kathgovrw; imperfect
kathgovroun; future
kathgorhvsw; 1 aorist
kathgovrhsa; present passive
kathgorou'mai; (
katav and
ajgoreuvw, properly, to speak against (cf.
katav, III. 7) in court, in the assembly of the people), to accuse; a. before a judge: absolutely (to make accusation), ,;
tivno", to accuse one, ; ; T Tr text WH; R L Tr brackets; , ; ; ; ; with the addition of a genitive of the thing of which one is accused (as Demosthenes 515 at the end): ; (unless it be thought preferable to regard the relative in these instances as in the genitive by attraction (so Buttmann, sec. 132, 16 at the end), since the common construction in Greek authors is
kathgovroun
tiv
tivno", cf. Matthiae, sec. 370 Anm. 2, p. 849f, and sec. 378, p. 859; cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 9a.);
tivno"
periv
tivno", (Thucydides 8, 85; Xenophon, Hell. 1, 7, 2); with the genitive of person and accusative of the thing, (unless
pollav should be taken adverbially: much, vehemently);
povsa, L T Tr WH (Euripides, Or. 28); followed by
katav with the genitive of person, (Xenophon, Hell. 1, 7, 9 (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 28, 1; p. 431 (402); Buttmann, sec. 132, 16)); passive to be accused (as ; Xenophon, Hell. 3, 5, 25; cf. Buttmann, sec. 134, 4):
uJpov
tivno", ; L T Tr WH for Rec.
parav (
tov
tiv
ktl., why (A. V. wherefore) he was accused; unless it is to be explained, what accusation was brought forward etc.);
oJ
kathgorouvmeno", . b. of an extra-judicial accusation (Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 4): absolutely, ;
tivno", (cf. Buttmann, 295 (254)); R G Tr: solecistically
tina, L T WH (cf. Buttmann, sec. 132, 16).*(Synonyms:
aijtivasqai,
diabavllein,
ejgkavlein,
ejpikavlein,
kathgorei'n:
aijtivasqai to accuse with primary reference to the ground of accusation (
aijtiva), the crime;
kathgorei'n to accuse formally and before a tribunal bring a charge against (
katav suggestive of animosity) publicly;
ejgkavlein, to accuse with publicity (
kalei'n), but not necessarily formally or before a tribunal;
ejpikavlein `to cry out upon' suggestive of publicity and hostility;
diabavllein, properly, to make a verbal assault which reaches its goal (
diav); in distinction from the words which allude to authorship (
aijtiavomai), to judicial procedure (
kathgorevw), or to open averment (
ejgkalevw,
ejpikalevw),
diabavllw expresses the giving currency to a damaging insinuation.
diavbolo" a secret and calumnious, in distinction from
kathvgoro" an open and formal, accuser. Schmidt, chapter 5.)