periergas

Strong’sG4021

a busybody, curious, magical

stem perierg-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.

* περίεργος, -ον,

I. of persons;

1. over careful.

2. curious, meddling, a busybody: I Ti 5:13.

II. Of things;

1. over-wrought.

2. superfluous.

3. curious, uncanny; τὰ π., curious arts, magic: Ac 19:19 (v. Deiss., BS, 3235.).†

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

Strong’s G4021 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidper-ee'-er-gos

working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic)

Fromfrom G4012 and G2041;

King Jamesbusybody, curious arts.

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

περίεργος, ον,
taking needless trouble, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -γως Refs 5th c.BC+
2 officious, meddlesome, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. εἰμι I am a busy-body, Refs; περίεργα βλέπειν look curiously at, with accusative, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 of an inquiring mind, Refs 4th c.BC+; inquisitive, curious, Refs 2nd c.AD+; π. παιδία Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὸ π. Refs 2nd c.AD+. adverb -γως, ἔχειν Refs 2nd c.AD+ H.: comparative -ότερον, ἔχειν πρός τινα Refs 4th c.AD+
II passive, overwrought, elaborate, ὀδμή (perfume) Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ τῆς κόμης π. Refs 2nd c.AD+; especially of language or style, ὀνόματα, λόγοι, Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative, - οτέρα λέξις Refs. adverb -γωςRefs 2nd c.AD+: comparative -ότερον, ἠσκημένος τὴν κόμην Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 superfluous, π. καὶ μακρὰ λέγειν Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅπως εἴ τις π. ἀφαιρεθῇ (i.e. δαπάνη) Refs 5th c.BC+; futile, useless, πόλεμος Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -γωςRefs 4th c.BC+
II.3 curious, superstitious, ἱερουργίαι Refs 1st c.AD+; τὰ π. curious arts, magic, NT

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.

busybodies1×magic1×

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	periergos	periergas	periergem	periergois	periergais1×περίεργοι	periergeim1×περίεργα
object accusative	periergon	periergan		periergoin	periergain
direct address vocative	periergor	periergar		periergoir	periergair
of, belonging to genitive	periergou	periergau	periergeu	periergoiu	periergaiu	periergeiu
to, for dative	periergo	perierga	perierge	periergoi	periergai	periergei

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

periergstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

perierg 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

periergais“busybodies”subjectnominative plural1×

1 Timothy 5:13… de argais alla kai fluarais kai periergais, lalarōntais teim mē darōnteim.… only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

periergeim“magic”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Acts 19:19hikanois de toiu teim periergeim prassarantoiu sumferarantois tain biblain katakaiale enōpion …… number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned …