Betray
King James Dictionary [1]
BETRA'Y, L.traho.
1. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust as, an officer betrayed the city.
The son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matthew 17
2. To violate by fraud, or unfaithfulness as, to betray a trust.
If the people of America ever betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of heaven.
3. To violate confidence by disclosing a secret, or that which was intrusted to expose followed by the person, or the thing as, my friend betrayed me, or betrayed the secret. 4. To disclose, or permit to appear, what is intended to be kept secret, or what prudence would conceal.
Be swift to hear, but cautions of your tongue, lest you betray your ignorance.
Hence,
5. To mislead or expose to inconvenience not foreseen as, great confidence betrays a man into errors. 6. To show to discover to indicate what is not obvious at first view, or would otherwise be concealed.
Nor, after length of years, a stone betray
The place where once the very ruins lay.
This river betrays its original in its name.
All the names in the country betray great antiquity.
7. To fail, or deceive.
But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
(2): (v. t.) To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
(3): (v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
(4): (v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
(5): (v. t.) To show or to indicate; - said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
(6): (v. t.) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
(7): (v. t.) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
bē̇ - trā ´ (רמה , rāmāh ; παραδίδωμι , paradı́dōmi ): In the Old Testament only once ( 1 Chronicles 12:17 ). David warns those who had deserted to him from Saul: "If ye be come to betray me to mine adversaries ... the God of our fathers look thereon." The same Hebrew word is elsewhere translated "beguile" ( Genesis 29:25; Joshua 9:22 ), "deceive" ( 1 Samuel 19:17; 1 Samuel 28:12; 2 Samuel 19:26; Proverbs 26:19; Lamentations 1:19 ).
In the New Testament, for paradidōmi : 36 times, of the betrayal of Jesus Christ, and only 3 times besides ( Matthew 24:10; Mark 13:12; Luke 21:16 ) of kinsmen delivering up one another to prosecution. In these three places the Revised Version (British and American) translates according to the more general meaning, "to deliver up," and also (in Matthew 17:22; Matthew 20:18; Matthew 26:16; Mark 14:10 , Mark 14:21; Luke 22:4 , Luke 22:6 ) where it refers to the delivering up of Jesus. The Revisers' idea was perhaps to retain "betray" only in direct references to Judas' act, but they have not strictly followed that rule. Judas' act was more than that of giving a person up to the authorities; he did it under circumstances of treachery which modified its character: ( a ) he took advantage of his intimate relation with Jesus Christ as a disciple to put Him in the hands of His enemies; ( b ) he did it stealthily by night, and ( c ) by a kiss, an act which professed affection and friendliness; ( d ) he did it for money, and ( e ) he knew that Jesus Christ was innocent of any crime ( Matthew 27:4 ).
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
( Παραδίδωμι ), a term used especially of the act of Judas in delivering up his Master to the Jews ( Matthew 10:4; Matthew 27:4, etc.). (See Judas). Monographs on several circumstances of the transaction have been written by Krackewitz (Rost. 1709), Oeder (in his Miscell. Sacr. p. 503-20), Opitius (Kilon. 1710), Sommel (Lund. 1796), Gurlitt (Hamb. 1805).
