ἀπειλέω, ἀπείλω: imperfect ἠπειλουν; 1 aorist middle ἠπειλησαμην; to threaten, menace: 1Pe_2:23; in middle, according to later Greek usage ((Appendix, bell. 104:3, 29); Polyaen. 7, 35, 2), actively (Buttmann, 54 (47)): Act_4:17 (ἀπειλή (L T Tr WH omit) ἀπειλεῖσθαι, with the dative of person followed by μή with infinitive, with sternest threats to forbid one to etc., Winers Grammar, § 54, 3; (Buttmann, 183 (159))). (From Homer down.) (Compare: προσαπειλέω.)

ἀπειλέω apeileō 2x to threaten, menace, rebuke, Act_4:17 ; 1Pe_2:23

ἀπειλέω , -ῶ (ἀπειλή ), [in LXX : Nah_1:4 ( H1605 ), Isa_66:14 ( H2194 ), Sir_19:17 , al. ;] to threaten: 1Pe_2:23 ; mid ., Act_4:17 ( v . MM , VGT , s.v. , and cf. προσαπειλέω ).†

ἀπειλέω [page 55] P Oxy II. 237 vi. 4 (A.D. 186) μήτε ἐμοὶ ἔτι ἀ̣π̣ε̣[ιλεῖν ]. P Grenf I. 53 .9 (iv/A.D.) (= Chrest. I. 131) ἀσπάζεται τὰ παιδία σου καὶ Ἀλ̣λ̣οῦς πολλά σοι ἀπειλ (εῖ ). Vettius Valens, p. 5 .31 , has ἀπειλητικοί men given to using threats, which comes from a verbal ἀπειλητός . Since this verb, with its rather commoner noun, might have had a large use in the innumerable papyrus petitions, we seem bound to infer that it was going out of popular speech. It occurs nine times in LXX and twice in NT. Its use in Act_4:17 , where one is strongly tempted to accept from E and P the characteristic ἀπειλῇ ἀπειλησώμεθα , clearly reflects the literal rendering of a Semitic original reported to Luke from an eye-witness was it Paul? Homœoteleuton and unfamiliarity to Greek ears would account for the loss of the noun in ΰ ABD Pesh., etc. (so Blass).

ἀπειλέω, -ῶ (ἀπειλή) [in LXX: Nam.1:4 (גָּעַר), Isa.66:14 (זָעַם), Sir.19:17, al. ;] to threaten: 1Pe.2:23; mid., Act.4:17 (see MM, VGT, see word, and cf. προσαπειλέω).† (AS)