Katalalía — G2636

Definition

feminine noun

defamation

Usually translated as

backbiting, evil speaking

Origin

from G2637

• katálalos (G2637)

Occurrences

Katalalía occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Corinthians (1), 1 Peter (1)

• 2 Corinthians 12:20 — For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings (καταλαλιαί), whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• 1 Peter 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings (καταλαλιάς),