英语词汇devil的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

devil. Devil has a more complicated history than the old sto- ry that it is a contraction of “do-evil.” It is a translation of the Hebrew “Satan” in the Old Testament, where it meant “adver- sary.” When the Old Testament was translated into Greek, its translators chose the word diabolos to convey the meaning of “adversary,” diabalos coming from the Greek verb diaballian “to slander or accuse.” Diabolos thus meant “accuser,” and the devil, whose name derives from diabolos via the Old English deofol is “the slanderer or accuser of the soul.”

词汇	devil
词源	devil. Devil has a more complicated history than the old sto- ry that it is a contraction of “do-evil.” It is a translation of the Hebrew “Satan” in the Old Testament, where it meant “adver- sary.” When the Old Testament was translated into Greek, its translators chose the word diabolos to convey the meaning of “adversary,” diabalos coming from the Greek verb diaballian “to slander or accuse.” Diabolos thus meant “accuser,” and the devil, whose name derives from diabolos via the Old English deofol is “the slanderer or accuser of the soul.”
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