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To disqualify

καταβραβεύωStrong’s G2603

katabrabeuō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Katabrabeuō is the Greek word usually translated “should disqualify”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,”
Colossians 2:18 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “should disqualify”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • should disqualify 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Colossians 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    καταβραβεύω katabrabeuō · to disqualify

    κατα-βραβεύω (βραβεύς, an umpire, cf βραβεῖον) to give judg­ment against, condemn (see Field, Notes, 196; Abbott, Essays, 104 f.): Col.2:18.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “disqualify” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    DISQUALIFY, verb transitive

    [dis and qualify.]

    1. To make unfit; to deprive of natural power, or the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; with for.
    2. To deprive of legal capacity, power or right; to disable.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.