Lexicon phluaros: babbling Original Word: φλύαρος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: phluaros Phonetic Spelling: (floo'-ar-os) Short Definition: prating, talking foolishly Definition: prating, talking foolishly, babbling. HELPS word-Studies 5397 phlýaros (an adjective, derived from phlyō, "to boil, bubble over") – properly, what bubbles over (like a seething, boiling pot). 5397 (phlýaros) is only used in 1 Tim 5:13. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom phluó (to babble) Definitionbabbling NASB Translationgossips (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5397: φλύαροςφλύαρος, φλυαρον ( φλύω, 'to boil up,' 'throw up bubbles', of water; and since bubbles are hollow and useless things, 'to indulge in empty and foolish talk'); of persons, uttering or doing silly things, garrulous, babbling ( A. V. tattlers): 1 Timothy 5:13 ( Dionysius Halicarnassus, de comp. verb. 26, vol. 5:215, 3; others); of things, foolish, trifling, vain: φιλοσοφία, 4 Macc. 5:10. ( Plato, Josephus, Vita §31; often in Plutarch; Aeschylus dial. Socrates 3, 13; others.)
Strong's tattler. From phluo (to bubble); a garrulous person, i.e. Prater -- tattler. |
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