adjective
mataiologos
Strong’sG3151
a vain, empty talker
stem mataiolog-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.
*† ματαιολόγος, -ον
(< μάταιος, λέγω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3151 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
talking at random, NT+4th 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 | mataiologos | mataiologas | mataiologem | mataiologois1×ματαιολόγοι | mataiologais | mataiologeim |
| object accusative | mataiologon | mataiologan | mataiologoin | mataiologain | ||
| direct address vocative | mataiologor | mataiologar | mataiologoir | mataiologair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | mataiologou | mataiologau | mataiologeu | mataiologoiu | mataiologaiu | mataiologeiu |
| to, for dative | mataiologo | mataiologa | mataiologe | mataiologoi | mataiologai | mataiologei |
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
mataiolog 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
mataiologois“idle talkers”subjectnominative plural1×
Titus 1:10“idle talkers”Alō gar pollois kai anupotaktois, mataiologois kai frenapatois, malista tois ek tau …For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,