βαττολογέω
battologéō · G945 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to use many words, to speak for a long time
To speak much or extensively, with a possible added implication of meaningless words
ExamplesMatthew 6:7 “And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
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to babble
To utter senseless sounds or to speak indistinctly and incoherently
ExamplesMatthew 6:7 “And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
How it’s used In 2 roles
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- φλυαρέω phlyaréō · G5396 · to talk nonsense
- Greek verb meaning to talk idle nonsense or prate foolishly (3 John 10); both denote worthless, empty speech, though φλυαρέω emphasizes foolish content while βαττολογέω emphasizes repetitious form
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To use many words, to speak for a long time33.88
- Used of excessive, repetitive speech, drawn from the same broad range of meaning as the entry below.
- To babble33.89
- Used of empty, repetitive prayer, as of Jesus' instruction not to use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do in Matthew 6:7.
Word family 39 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (T WH βατταλογέω (with א B, see WH's Appendix, p. 152)), βαττολόγω: 1 aorist subjunctive…
a. to stammer, and, since stammerers are accustomed to repeat the same sounds,
b. to repeat the same things over and over, to use many and idle words, to babble, prate; so Mt 6:7, where it is explained by ἐν τῇ πολυλογία, (Vulg.multumloqui; (A. V. to use vain repetitions)); cf. Tholuck at the passage Some suppose the word to be derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered (Herodotus 4, 155); others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems; but comparing βατταρίζειν, which has the same meaning, and βάρβαρος (which see), it seems fax more probable that the word is onomatopoetic. (Simplicius, in Epictetus (ench. 30 at the end), p. 340, Schweigh edition.)
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.
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