ματαιολόγος
mataiológos · G3151 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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empty talker, foolish babbler
(Derivative of ματαιολογέω ‘to engage in idle talk,’ not occurring in the NT) One who engages in empty and idle talk
ExamplesTitus 1:10 For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- δέωto bind, to tie 1
- ἀνατρέπωto turn over 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πολύςmany 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- φλύαρος phlýaros · G5397 · one who talks nonsense, gossipy
- Greek adjective/noun for one who talks nonsense or gossip; very close synonym for an idle, senseless talker
In the other Testament 2 words
- רֵיק rêyq · H7386 · empty, to be emptied out, to be stripped (of one's possession)
- Hebrew adjective meaning 'empty, vain' used substantively for empty/vain persons or speech; corresponds to the 'vain talker' sense of ματαιολόγος
- לוּץ lûwts · H3887 · insolent person, to behave arrogantly
- Hebrew noun for one who speaks mockingly or frivolously; overlaps with the sense of one who engages in senseless, contentious speech
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Empty talker, foolish babbler33.378
- This lexeme denotes a person who engages in empty, meaningless talk. Titus 1:10 warns of “many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.”
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ματαιολογου, ὁ (μάταιος and λέγω), an idle talker, one who utters empty, senseless…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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