Períergos — G4021
G4021 · Greek — περίεργος
Pronunciation: per-ee'-er-gos
Definition
adjective
working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic)
- of things
Usually translated as
curious arts, busybody
Origin
from G4012 and G2041
Occurrences
Períergos occurs 2 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (1), 1 Timothy (1)
- Acts 19:19 — Many of them also which used curious arts (περίεργα) brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
- 1 Timothy 5:13 — And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies (περίεργοι), speaking things which they ought not.
Strong's Lexicon — P