Strong's Greek · G4021

περίεργος

períergos

busybody, curious arts

Definition

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

Derivation

from G4012 (περί) and G2041 (ἔργον);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

1 Timothy 5:13

At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

Acts 19:19

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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