Strong's Concordance argos: inactive, idle Original Word: ἀργός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: argos Phonetic Spelling: (ar-gos') Definition: inactive, idle Usage: idle, lazy, thoughtless, unprofitable, injurious. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and ergon Definition inactive, idle NASB Translation careless (1), idle (4), lazy (1), useless (2). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 692: ἀργόςἀργός, ἀργόν, and in later writings from Aristotle, hist. anim. 10, 40 (vol. i., p. 627{a}, 15) on and consequently also in the N. T. with the feminine ἀργῇ, which among the early Greeks Epimenides alone is said to have used, Titus 1:12; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 104f; id. Paralip., p. 455ff; Winers Grammar, 68 (67) (cf. 24; Buttmann, 25 (23)) (contracted from ἀεργός which Homer uses, from alpha privative and ἔργον without work, without labor, doing nothing), inactive, idle; a. free from labor, at leisure (ἀργόν εἶναι, Herodotus 5, 6): Matthew 20:3, 6 (Rec.); 1 Timothy 5:13. b. lazy, shunning the labor which one ought to perform (Homer, Iliad 9, 320 ὁ, τ' ἀεργός ἀνήρ, ὁ, τέ πολλά ἐοργως): πίστις, James 2:20 (L T Tr WH for R G νεκρά); γαστέρες ἀργαί i. e. idle gluttons, from Epimenides, Titus 1:12 (Nicet. ann. 7, 4, 135 d. εἰς ἀργᾷς γαστερας ὀχετηγησας); ἀργός καί ἄκαρπος εἰς τί, 2 Peter 1:8. c. of things from which no profit is derived, although they can and ought to be productive; as of fields, trees, gold and silver, (cf. Grimm on Wis. 14:5; (Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 2)); unprofitable, ῤῆμα ἀργόν, by litotes equivalent to pernicious (see ἄκαρπος): Matthew 12:36. From a (as a negative particle) and ergon; inactive, i.e. Unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless -- barren, idle, slow. see GREEK a see GREEK ergon Englishman's Concordance Matthew 12:36 Adj-NNSGRK: πᾶν ῥῆμα ἀργὸν ὃ λαλήσουσιν NAS: you that every careless word KJV: That every idle word that INT: every word careless that may speak Matthew 20:3 Adj-AMP Matthew 20:6 Adj-NMP 1 Timothy 5:13 Adj-NFP 1 Timothy 5:13 Adj-NFP Titus 1:12 Adj-NFP James 2:20 Adj-NFS 2 Peter 1:8 Adj-AMP Strong's Greek 692 |
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