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Lexicon :: Strong's G4021 - periergos

Aa
περίεργος
Transliteration
periergos (Key)
Pronunciation
per-ee'-er-gos
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
2x in 2 unique form(s) TR
2x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Strong’s Definitions

περίεργος períergos, per-ee'-er-gos; from G4012 and G2041; working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic):—busybody, curious arts.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G4021 in the following manner: curious arts (1x), busybody (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G4021 in the following manner: curious arts (1x), busybody (1x).

  1. busy about trifles and neglectful of important matters

    1. esp. busy about other folks' affairs, a busybody

    2. of things: impertinent and superfluous

      1. of magic arts

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
περίεργος períergos, per-ee'-er-gos; from G4012 and G2041; working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic):—busybody, curious arts.
STRONGS G4021:
περίεργος, 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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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
19:19
1 Timothy
5:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4021 matches the Greek περίεργος (periergos),
which occurs 2 times in 2 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:19 - And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:13 - And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.
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