Greek verb · G4020
περιεργάζομαι
periergazomaiper-ee-er-gad'-zom-ahee
to waste one's labour about a thing.; to be a busybody
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: periergázomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4020is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4020
to work all around, i.e. bustle about (meddle)
The King James renders it: be a busybody.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
periergazomai is rendered "to waste one's labour about a thing.; to be a busybody". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in 2 Thessalonians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to waste one's labour about a thing.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Thessalonians 3:11Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
The first use
Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
2 Thessalonians 3:11περιεργαζομένους.¶
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to waste one's labour about a thing., and to be a busybody.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to waste one's labour about a thing. | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where2 Thessalonians 3:11Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but… |
| to be a busybody | Tagged as
| Where2 Thessalonians 3:11Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περί | peri | about | Uses332 |
| περιπατέω | peripateo | to walk | Uses94 |
| περισσεύω | perisseuo | to exceed | Uses39 |
| περιτομή | peritome | circumcision | Uses36 |
| περιβάλλω | periballo | to clothe | Uses23 |
| περιτέμνω | peritemno | to circumcise | Uses17 |
| περισσοτέρως | perissoteros | more excessively | Uses12 |
| περιστερά | peristera | dove | Uses10 |
| περισσῶς | perissos | excessively | Uses9 |
| περίχωρος | perichoros | region | Uses9 |
| περισσότερος | perissoteros | more excessive | Uses9 |
| περιτίθημι | peritithemi | to put on | Uses8 |
and 43 more on the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- περιεργαζομένους.¶1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-PNP-APM
2 Thessalonians
one use
Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
- περιεργαζομένους.¶periergazomenousverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: being busybodies
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.