πανουργία
panourgía · G3834 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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craftiness, treachery
Trickery involving evil cunning
ExamplesLuke 20:23 But He saw through their trickery and said to them,
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the sight of God. For it is written: “He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE BY THEIR CRAFTINESS”;
2 Corinthians 4:2 but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in trickery nor distorting the word of God, but by the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in the sight of God.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 3
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κατανοέωto think about very carefully 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 7
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- עׇרְמָה ʻormâh · H6195 · cunning, prudence
- Hebrew עׇרְמָה denotes cunning or shrewdness in both positive (prudence/wisdom) and negative (guile/trickery) senses, directly matching Greek πανουργία's core semantic range of adroitness that can manifest as either skillful insight or deceptive sophistry depending on moral context.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Craftiness, treachery88.270
- πανουργία names deceptive cunning used to mislead others, as Paul warns the Corinthians of a danger to their devotion: “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11:3)
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πανουργίας, ἡ (πανοῦργος, which see), craftiness, cunning: Lk 20:23; 2 Cor 4:2; 2 Cor…
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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