G4021: περίεργος
períergos · “meddlesome/magic”
Definition
working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic)
KJV translates it as: busybody, curious arts
Extended definition
περίεργος, -ον
I. of persons;
1. over careful.
2. curious, meddling, a busybody: 1Ti.5:13.
II. Of things;
1. over-wrought.
2. superfluous.
3. curious, uncanny; τὰ π., curious arts, magic: Act.19:19 (see Deiss., BS, 3235.).†
(AS)
I. of persons;
1. over careful.
2. curious, meddling, a busybody: 1Ti.5:13.
II. Of things;
1. over-wrought.
2. superfluous.
3. curious, uncanny; τὰ π., curious arts, magic: Act.19:19 (see Deiss., BS, 3235.).†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G4021 is translated
- magic arts ×1
- busybodies, ×1
Bible verses with G4021 (períergos)
Períergos appears in 2 verses.
- Acts 19:19
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
- 1 Timothy 5:13
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.