Vincent Word Studies - Matthew 4:1 - 4:1

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The Devil (τοῦ διαβόλου)

The word means calumniator, slanderer. It is sometimes applied to men, as to Judas (Joh 6:70); in 1Ti 3:11 (slanderers); and in 2Ti 3:3, and Tit 2:3 (false accusers). In such cases never with the article. The Devil, Satan, the god of this world (ὁ διάβολος), is always with the article and never plural. This should be distinguished from another word, also wrongly rendered devil in the A. V. - δαίμων, and its more common neuter form δαιμόνιον, both of which should be translated demon, meaning the unclean spirits which possessed men, and were cast out by Christ and his apostles. The Rev., unfortunately, and against the protest of the American revisers, retains devil for both words, except in Act 17:18, where it renders as A. V. gods.