Lexicon periergos: Busybody, meddlesome, curious about trifles Original Word: περίεργος Strong's Exhaustive Concordance meddlesome, belonging to magicFrom peri and ergon; working all around, i.e. Officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic) -- busybody, curious arts. see GREEK peri see GREEK ergon HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 4021 períergos (an adjective, derived from 4012 /perí, "all around" and 2041 /érgon, "work") – properly, worked all-around, which describes "over-doing" – i.e. spending excessive time (effort) where it doesn't belong (or should not happen). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom peri and ergon Definition overly careful, curious, meddling, subst. a busybody NASB Translation busybodies (1), magic (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4021: περίεργοςπερίεργος, περιεργον (περί and ἔργον; see περί, III. 2), busy about trifles and neglectful of important matters, especially busy about other folks' affairs, a busybody: 1 Timothy 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, Acts 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. Forms and Transliterations περιεργα περίεργα περιεργοι περίεργοι perierga períerga periergoi períergoiLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Acts 19:19 Adj-ANPGRK: τῶν τὰ περίεργα πραξάντων συνενέγκαντες NAS: who practiced magic brought KJV: which used curious arts brought INT: of those who the magic arts had practiced having brought 1 Timothy 5:13 Adj-NMP Strong's Greek 4021 |
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