noun · feminine
panourgias
Strong’sG3834
cunning, craftiness
stem panourgi-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
πανουργία, -ας, ἡ
(< πανοῦργος), [in LXX: Jos 9:4, Pr 1:4 8:5 (עׇרְמָה), Nu 24:22, Si 19:25 21:22 31 (34):10 (in all cases in good or indifferent sense)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3834 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpan-oorg-ee'-ah
adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry
Fromfrom G3835;
King James(cunning) craftiness, subtilty.
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
knavery, Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, villainies, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of animals, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 adulteration of drugs or honey, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | panourgias | panourgiais |
| object accusative | panourgian1×πανουργίαν | panourgiain |
| direct address vocative | panourgiar | panourgiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | panourgiau | panourgiaiu |
| to, for dative | panourgia4×πανουργίᾳ | panourgiai |
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
panourgia 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
panourgian“craftiness”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 20:23“craftiness”katanoarantos de autoiu tan panourgian legata pros autoin;But Jesus saw through their duplicity and said to them,
panourgia“craftiness”to, fordative singular4×
1 Corinthians 3:19… Tos drassorōntos toin sofoin en ta panourgia autoiu;… He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
2 Corinthians 4:2“craftiness”… krupteim tau aischunau, mē peripatarōntois en panourgia mēde dolarōntois ton logon tou theou, …… secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight …
2 Corinthians 11:3… tos ofios exapatata Hevan en ta panourgia autou, ftheriteia teim noēmeim vu apo …… Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray …
Ephesians 4:14“craftiness”… en ta kubeia toiu anthrōpoiu en panourgia pros tan methodeian tau planau,… about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.