Lexical Summary periergos: overly careful, curious, meddling, subst. a busybody Original Word: περίεργοςTransliteration: periergos Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee'-er-gos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: overly careful, curious, meddling, subst. a busybody Meaning: overly careful, curious, meddling, a busybody Strong's 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 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. |
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