Strong's Lexicon
G4021 — περίεργος
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4021 |
|---|---|
| Word: | περίεργος |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Etymology: | from G4012 and G2041 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 2 |
| Transliteration: | periergos |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | per-ee'-er-gos |
| Meaning: | 1. working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic) |
| KJV Renderings: | busybody, curious arts |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
περίεργος, περιεργον (περί and ἔργον; see περί, III. 2), busy about trifles and neglectful of important matters, especially busy about other folks’ affairs, a busybody: 1Ti 5:13 (often so in secular authors from Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 1; περιεργων καί πολυπράγμων, Epictetus diss. 3, 1, 21); of things: τά περίεργα, impertinent and superfluous, of magic (A. V., curious) arts, Act 19:19 (so περίεργος practising magic, Aristaen., epistles 2, 18, 2 (cf. Plutarch, Alex. 2, 5)); cf. Kypke, Observations, and Kuinoel, commentary at the passage.
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
περίεργος (busybody)
Acts 19:19
- KJV: Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all and they counted the price of them and found fifty thousand of silver
- GK: ικανοί δε των τα περίεργα πραξάντων συνενέγκαντες τας βίβλους κατέκαιον ενώπιον πάντων και συνεψήφισαν τας τιμάς αυτών και εύρον αργυρίου μυριάδας πέντε
1 Timothy 5:13
- KJV: And withal they learn idle wandering about from house to house and not only idle but tattlers also and busybodies speaking things which they ought not
- GK: άμα δε και αργαί μανθάνουσι περιερχόμεναι τας οικιάς ου μόνον δε αργαί αλλά και φλύαροι και περίεργοι λαλούσαι τα μη δέοντα