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noun · feminine

mataiologias

Greekματαιολογία (mataiologia)

Strong’sG3150

foolish talking

stem mataiologi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

fruitless discussion

What it means

*† ματαιολογία, -ας, ἡ

(< ματαιολόγος),

idle or foolish talk: I Ti 1:6.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3150 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmat-ah-yol-og-ee'-ah

random talk, i.e. babble

Fromfrom G3151;

King Jamesvain jangling.

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativemataiologiasmataiologiais
object accusativemataiologianματαιολογίανmataiologiain
direct address vocativemataiologiarmataiologiair
of, belonging to genitivemataiologiaumataiologiaiu
to, for dativemataiologiamataiologiai

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
mataiologistem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

mataiologia 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

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mataiologian“fruitless discussion”objectaccusative singular

1 Timothy 1:6“fruitless discussion”haiu tinois astocharatois ektrepila eis mataiologian,Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.