spermologos

Strong’sG4691

a babbler

stem spermolog-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.

* σπερμολόγος, -ον

(< σπέρμα, λέγω)

a seed picker;

(a) prop., of birds (Arist., Aristoph, al.);

(b) in Attic slang, of an idler who lives on scraps picked up in the agora; hence, as subst., ὁ σ., an idle babbler: Ac 17:18.†

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

Strong’s G4691 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsper-mol-og'-os

a seed-picker (as the crow), i.e. (figuratively) a sponger, loafer (specially, a gossip or trifler in talk)

Fromfrom G4690 and G3004;

King Jamesbabbler.

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

σπερμο-λόγος, ον,
(λέγω) picking up seeds, of birds, Refs 2nd c.AD+: as substantive, rook, Refs 4th c.BC+; glossed κολοιῶδες ζῷον, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 τὰ σπερμολόγα τῶν παιδαρίων guttersnipes, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II picking up scraps, gossiping, ἄνθρωπος Refs 1st c.BC+; also πικρὰ καὶ σ. ῥήματα Refs 1st c.AD+
III as substantive, one who picks up and retails scraps of knowledge, an idle babbler, gossip, 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.

babbler1×

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	spermologos1×σπερμολόγος	spermologas	spermologem	spermologois	spermologais	spermologeim
object accusative	spermologon	spermologan		spermologoin	spermologain
direct address vocative	spermologor	spermologar		spermologoir	spermologair
of, belonging to genitive	spermologou	spermologau	spermologeu	spermologoiu	spermologaiu	spermologeiu
to, for dative	spermologo	spermologa	spermologe	spermologoi	spermologai	spermologei

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

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

spermolog 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

spermologos“babbler”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 17:18… tinois legale; Tinem an thelatoiō tos spermologos houtos legarō? tois de; Xeneiu daimoneiu …… of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He …