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adjective

fluaras

Greekφλύαρος (fluaros)

Strong’sG5397

prating, talking foolishly

stem fluar-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

gossips

What it means

** φλύαρος, -ον

(< φλύω, to babble), [in LXX: IV Mac 5:10 *;]

babbling, garrulous: I Ti 5:13 (EV, tattlers; of things, φιλοσοφία, IV Mac, l.c.).†

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.

Every form

Job in the sentence casemasculine singularfeminine singularneuter singularmasculine pluralfeminine pluralneuter plural
subject nominativefluarosfluarasfluaremfluaroisfluaraisφλύαροιfluareim
object accusativefluaronfluaranfluaroinfluarain
direct address vocativefluarorfluararfluaroirfluarair
of, belonging to genitivefluaroufluaraufluareufluaroiufluaraiufluareiu
to, for dativefluarofluarafluarefluaroifluaraifluarei

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
fluarstem+oaegender+smnruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

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

fluaramō — φλυαρέω, I gossip against

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

fluarais“gossips”subjectnominative plural

1 Timothy 5:13“gossips”hama de kai argais mathalō, periercherōtais tain oikiain, ouk monem de argais alla kai fluarais kai periergais, lalarōtais teim mē darōteim.At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.