Lexicon periergos: overly careful, curious, meddling, subst. a busybody Original Word: περίεργος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: periergos Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee'-er-gos) Short Definition: a busybody, curious, magical Definition: of persons: over-careful; curious, meddling, a busy-body; of things: over-wrought; superfluous; curious, uncanny; subst: curious arts, magic. 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 ergonDefinitionoverly careful, curious, meddling, subst. a busybody NASB Translationbusybodies (1), magic (1).
Thayer's 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.
Strong's meddlesome, belonging to magic From peri and ergon; working all around, i.e. Officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic) -- busybody, curious arts. see GREEK peri see GREEK ergon |
