Insult
Holman Bible Dictionary [1]
Proverbs 12:16 Proverbs 14:31 Jeremiah 20:7-8 2 Kings 2:23 Luke 18:32 Matthew 26:68 Matthew 27:29 27:40-44 Mark 14:65 Mark 15:16-20 15:29-32 Luke 22:63-65 Luke 23:11 23:35-39 Romans 15:3 Psalm 69:9 1 Peter 3:9 Matthew 5:11 2 Corinthians 12:10 Matthew 5:22
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
(2): ( v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
(3): ( v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
(4): ( v. i.) To leap or jump.
(5): ( v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.
(6): ( v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
or such a treatment of another, in word or deed, as to express contempt, is not definitely taken cognizance of in the Mosaic law; only the reviling of superiors is forbidden ( Exodus 22:28), yet without any special penalty attached. The severity, however, with ‘ which disrespect towards sacred persons was punished appears from 2 Kings 2:22 sq. There also occurs mention ( Psalms 22:8; Psalms 38:21; Lamentations 2:15; Matthew 27:39) of gestures of malicious mockery (wagging the head, הֵנַיעִ ראֹשׁ ). Insult by abusive words ( Matthew 5:22, Ῥακά ; (See Raca) ) or stroke (smiting on the cheek, Job 16:10; Matthew 5:39; John 18:22; John 19:3; pulling the ears, spitting upon, Matthew 27:30, etc.) was, in later law, punished by fine (Mishna, Baba Kammer, 8, 6; comp. Matthew 5:22), as also in Roman law. For a marked public affront which Herod Agrippa I received at Alexandria, see Philo, 2, 522. (See Courtesy).
