Lexical Summary phlyaros: babbling Original Word: φλύαροςTransliteration: phlyaros Phonetic Spelling: (floo'-ar-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: babbling Meaning: babbling Strong's Concordance tattler. From phluo (to bubble); a garrulous person, i.e. Prater -- tattler. Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |