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φλύαρος

phlýaros · G5397 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. one who talks nonsense, gossipy

    (Derivative of φλυαρέω ‘to talk nonsense,’) Pertaining to talking nonsense

    Examples

    1 Timothy 5:13 At the same time they also learn to be idle, as they go around from house to house; and not merely idle, but also they become gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention.

How it’s used

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Near synonyms 1 word
ματαιολόγος mataiológos · G3151 · empty talker, foolish babbler
Both refer to those who engage in worthless speech; ματαιολόγος focuses on vain or fruitless discourse, while φλύαρος emphasizes the chattering, gossipy nature of the talk.
Semantic domains 1 entry
One who talks nonsense, gossipy33.375
1 Timothy 5:13 warns against younger widows who become “gossips and busybodies, talking about things not proper to mention”.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

φλύαροςphlýaros · G5397φλυαρέω phlyaréō · G5396 · to talk nonsense · 1×

Also from the root φλύαρος

οἰνοφλυγία oinophlygía · G3632 · drunkenness · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φλυαρον (φλύω, 'to boil up,' 'throw up bubbles', of water; and since bubbles are hollow…
φλυαρον (φλύω, 'to boil up,' 'throw up bubbles', of water; and since bubbles are hollow and useless things, 'to indulge in empty and foolish talk'); of persons, uttering or doing silly things, garrulous, babbling (A. V. tattlers): 1 Tim 5:13 (Dionysius Halicarnassus, de comp. verb. 26, vol. 5:215, 3; others); of things, foolish, trifling, vain: φιλοσοφία, 4 Macc. 5:10. (Plato, Josephus, Vita §31; often in Plutarch; Aeschylus dial. Socrates 3, 13; others.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Foolish Talk1 occurrence

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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