691. argeó
Lexicon
argeó: To be idle, to be inactive, to be lazy

Original Word: ἀργέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: argeó
Pronunciation: ar-GEH-o
Phonetic Spelling: (arg-eh'-o)
KJV: linger
NASB: idle
Word Origin: [from G692 (ἀργός - idle)]

1. to be idle
2. (figuratively) to delay

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
linger.

From argos; to be idle, i.e. (figuratively) to delay -- linger.

see GREEK argos

HELPS Word-studies

691 argéō (from 692 /argós, "idle") – properly, motionless (at rest); doing nothing ("inactive").

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from argos
Definition
to be idle
NASB Translation
idle (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 691: ἀργέω

ἀργέω, ἀργῷ; (to be ἀργός, which see); to be idle, inactive; contextually, to linger, delay: 2 Peter 2:3 οἷς τό κρίμα ἔκπαλαι οὐκ ἀργεῖ, i. e. whose punishment has long been impending and will shortly fall. (In Greek writings from Sophocles down.)

Forms and Transliterations
αργει ἀργεῖ αργία αργίαν αργίας αργούν ήργησαν ήργησε argei argeî
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Englishman's Concordance
2 Peter 2:3 V-PIA-3S
GRK: ἔκπαλαι οὐκ ἀργεῖ καὶ ἡ
NAS: from long ago is not idle, and their destruction
KJV: now of a long time lingereth not,
INT: of old not is idle and the

Strong's Greek 691
1 Occurrence


ἀργεῖ — 1 Occ.

690b
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