Quick Definition
ἐμβριμάομαι v. I snort, express indignant displeasure
Strong's Definition
from 1722 and brimaomai (to snort with anger); to have indignation on, i.e. (transitively) to blame, (intransitively) to sigh with chagrin, (specially) to sternly enjoin
KJV Usage: straitly charge, groan, murmur against
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | βριμάομαι (snort angrily, be furious)
33.320 · Communication · Insist
to insist sternly to state something with sternness
33.421 · Communication · Rebuke
to denounce harshly, to scold to exhibit irritation or even anger in expressing a harsh reproof
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐμβριμάομαι embrimaomai 5x
Attic spelling, ἐμβριμόομαι, to be greatly agitated, Jn. 11:33, 38; to charge or forbid sternly or vehemently, Mt. 9:30; Mk. 1:43; to express indignation, to censure, Mk. 14:5*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐμ-βριμάομαι (T, -έομαι; Bl., § 22, 1), -ῶμαι
(< βρίμη, strength, bulk, whence βριμάομαι, to snort with anger),
depon., with aor. mid. and pass.,
[in LXX (Hatch, Essays, 25): Da LXX 11:30 (also Aq., Ps 7:12; Sm., Is 17:13) * ;]
to snort in (of horses, Æsch.), hence, to speak or act with deep feeling (DCG, i, 62b);
to be moved with anger (cf. ἐμβρίμημα, La 2:6): c. dat., Mk 14:5, Jo 11:33; ἐν ἑαυτῷ, Jo 11:38;
to admonish sternly: c. dat., Mt 9:30, Mk 1:43.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐμβριμάομαι. We can produce no fresh evidence to throw light on the meaning of this difficult verb in the NT, but the LXX
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐμβριμάομαι (embrimaomai) — be agitated. ἐμβρῑμ-άομαι (active only in [Refs 5th c.AD+], with aorist middle et passive, snort in, ἵππους ἐν ἀμπυκτῆρσιν ἐμβριμωμένας, of horses, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. of persons, to be deeply moved, τῷ πνεύματι, ἐν ἑαυτῷ, [NT]
II. admonish urgently, rebuke, [NT+5th c.BC+]