King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4021
Transliteration: 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
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.
Word 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.