adjective
fluaras
Strong’sG5397
prating, talking foolishly
stem fluar-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** φλύαρος, -ον
(< φλύω, to babble), [in LXX: IV Mac 5:10 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5397 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfloo'-ar-os
a garrulous person, i.e. prater
Fromfrom φλύω (to bubble);
King Jamestattler.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
silly talk, foolery, nonsense, τἄλλα πάντ᾽ ἐστὶ φ. Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, fooleries, πολλῶν φλυάρων καὶ ταὧν ἀντάξια Refs 5th c.BC+
II tattler, babbler, NT+5th c.BC+: as adjective, ἡ φ. φιλοσοφία LXX+1st c.BC+: comparative φλυαρότερος Refs 2nd c.AD+ adverb φλυάρωςRefs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | fluaros | fluaras | fluarem | fluarois | fluarais1×φλύαροι | fluareim |
| object accusative | fluaron | fluaran | fluaroin | fluarain | ||
| direct address vocative | fluaror | fluarar | fluaroir | fluarair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | fluarou | fluarau | fluareu | fluaroiu | fluaraiu | fluareiu |
| to, for dative | fluaro | fluara | fluare | fluaroi | fluarai | fluarei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
fluar is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
fluarais“gossips”subjectnominative plural1×
1 Timothy 5:13… ouk monem de argais alla kai fluarais kai periergais, lalarōntais teim mē darōnteim.… being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should …