περιεργάζομαι
periergázomai · G4020 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be a busybody
To meddle in the affairs of someone else
Examples2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 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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Contrasting words 1 word
- ἡσυχάζω hēsycházō · G2270 · to rest, to live a quiet life
- ἡσυχάζω denotes being quiet, still, or minding one's own business, the opposite of the bustling, meddling activity of περιεργάζομαι
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be a busybody88.243
- περιεργάζομαι describes meddling in others' affairs rather than attending to one's own. Paul rebukes this behavior among the idle in Thessalonica: “we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies” (2 Thessalonians 3:11, where this verb is rendered “acting like busybodies”).
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (see περί, III. 2); to bustle about uselessly, to busy oneself about trifling, needless,…
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
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