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Lexicon :: Strong's G692 - argos

Aa
ἀργός
Transliteration
argos (Key)
Pronunciation
ar-gos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἄλφα (G1) (as a negative particle) and ἔργον (G2041)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:452,76

Trench's Synonyms: civ. βραδύς, νωθρός, ἀργός.

Strong’s Definitions

ἀργός argós, ar-gos'; from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2041; inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless:—barren, idle, slow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G692 in the following manner: idle (6x), slow (1x), barren (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G692 in the following manner: idle (6x), slow (1x), barren (1x).

  1. free from labour, at leisure

  2. lazy, shunning the labour which one ought to perform

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀργός argós, ar-gos'; from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2041; inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless:—barren, idle, slow.
STRONGS G692:
ἀργός, -όν, and in later writings from Aristotle, hist. anim. 10, 40 [vol. i., p. 627a, 15] on and consequently also in the N. T. with the feminine ἀργή, which among the early Greeks Epimenides alone is said to have used, Titus 1:12; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 104f; id. Paralip., p. 455ff; Winers Grammar, 68 (67) [cf. 24; Buttmann, 25 (23)], (contracted from ἄεργος which Homer uses, from α privative and ἔργον without work, without labor, doing nothing), inactive, idle;
a. free from labor, at leisure (ἀργὸν εἶναι, Herodotus 5, 6): Matthew 20:3, 6 [Rec.]; 1 Timothy 5:13.
b. lazy, shunning the labor which one ought to perform, (Homer, Iliad 9, 320 ὅ, τ’ ἀεργὸς ἀνήρ, ὅ, τε πολλὰ ἐοργώς): πίστις, James 2:20 (L T Tr WH for R G νεκρά); γαστέρες ἀργαί i. e. idle gluttons, from Epimenides, Titus 1:12 (Nicet. ann. 7, 4, 135 d. εἰς ἀργὰς γαστέρας ὀχετηγήσας); ἀργὸς καὶ ἄκαρπος εἴς τι, 2 Peter 1:8.
c. of things from which no profit is derived, although they can and ought to be productive; as of fields, trees, gold and silver, (cf. Grimm on Wis. 14:5; [Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 2]); unprofitable, ῤῆμα ἀργόν, by litotes equivalent to pernicious (see ἄκαρπος): Matthew 12:36.
[Synonyms: ἀργός, βραδύς, νωθρός: ἀργ. idle, involving blame-worthiness; βρ. slow (tardy), having a purely temporal reference and no necessary bad sense; νωθρ. sluggish, descriptive of constitutional qualities and suggestive of censure. Schmidt ch. 49; Trench § 104]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
12:36; 20:3; 20:6
1 Timothy
5:13
Titus
1:12; 1:12
James
2:20
2 Peter
1:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G692 matches the Greek ἀργός (argos),
which occurs 8 times in 7 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:36 - “But I tell G3004 you that for every G3956 [fn]careless G692 word G4487 that people G444 [fn]speak G2980, they will give G591 an account G3056 of it on the day G2250 of judgment G2920.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:3 - “And he went G1831 out G1831 about G4012 the [fn]third G5154 hour G5610 and saw G3708 others G243 standing G2476 idle G692 in the marketplace G58;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:6 - “And about G4012 the [fn]eleventh G1734 hour he went G1831 out G1831 and found G2147 others G243 standing G2476 around; and he *said G3004 to them, ‘Why G5101 have you been standing G2476 here G5602 idle G692 all G3650 day G2250 long G3650?’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:13 - At the same G260 time G260 they also G2532 learn G3129 to be idle G692, as they go G4022 around G4022 from house G3614 to house G3614; and not merely G3441 idle G692, but also G2532 they become gossips G5397 and busybodies G4021, talking G2980 about things G1163 not proper G1163 to mention.

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:12 - One G5100 of them G846, a prophet G4396 of their own G2398, said G3004, “Cretans G2912 are always G104 liars G5583, evil G2556 beasts G2342, lazy G692 gluttons G1064.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:20 - But are you willing G2309 to acknowledge G1097, you foolish G2756 person G444, that faith G4102 without G5565 works G2041 is useless G692?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:8 - For if these G3778 qualities are yours G4771 and are increasing G4121, they do not make G2525 you useless G692 nor G3761 unproductive G175 in the true G1922 knowledge G1922 of our Lord G2962 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547.
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