Quick Definition
I mock, scoff
Strong's Definition
to throw out the lip, i.e. jeer at
Derivation: from a derivative probably of G5491 (χεῖλος);
KJV Usage: mock
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
χλευάζω; imperfect ἐχλεύαζον; (χλεύη, jesting, mockery); to deride, mock, jeer: Act_2:13 Rec.; . (2Ma_7:27; Wis_11:15; Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Polybius, Diodorus, Plutarch, Lucian, others) (Compare: διαχλευάζω.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
χλευάζω chleuazō 1x
to jeer, scoff, Act_17:32
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* χλευάζω
( < χλεύη , a jest ),
[in LXX : Wis_11:14 , 2Ma_7:7 , 4Ma_5:22 * ;]
to jest, mock, jeer: Act_17:32 .†
* δια -χλευάζω , intensive of χλευάζω ,
to scoff, mock:
(a) c . acc ;
(b) absol. , Act_2:13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
χλευάζω [page 689]
For this NT ἅπ . εἰρ . (Act. 17:32) = mock, scoff, see the document quoted s.v. Ἰουδαῖος sub fine , PSI V. 48 19 (v/vi A.D.) χλευάσας ἑαυτόν , and P Masp I. 67092 10 (Byz.) νῦν δὲ ἐχλ̣ευάσθην παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ . See also Menander Επιτρέπ . 215.
The corr. subst. occurs in P Oxy VI. 904 2 (v/A.D.), a petition by an old man who has suffered a breach of contract and mockery ἀσυνθηκεὶ διαπεπονθότα καὶ χλεύην , and Preisigke 5763 51 (A.D. 647) δίχα δόλου τινος καὶ χλεύης καὶ βίας .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
χλευάζω χλευάζω, φυτ. -άσω [Etym: χλεύη] "to joke, jest, scoff, jeer", Ar. , Dem. :—so in Mid., Plut. c. acc. "to mock, scoff at", Dem.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
χλευάζω
(χλεύη, a jest), [in LXX: Wis.11:14, 2Ma.7:7, 4Ma.5:22 * ;]
to jest, mock, jeer: Act.17:32.†
(AS)