Greek adjective · G4021
περίεργος
periergosper-ee'-er-gos
over careful.; curious, meddling, a busybody; over-wrought.; superfluous.; curious, uncanny
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: períergos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4021is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 5meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4021
working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic)
The King James renders it: busybody, curious arts.
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
periergos is rendered "over careful.; curious, meddling, a busybody; over-wrought.; superfluous.; curious, uncanny". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists five meanings for it, beginning with "over careful.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 19:19And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
Acts 19:19περίεργα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word five senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: over careful., and curious, meddling, a busybody, and over-wrought., and superfluous., and curious, uncanny.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| over careful. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 19:19And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front… |
| curious, meddling, a busybody1Ti.5:13. __II. Of things | Tagged as
| Where1 Timothy 5:13At the same time they will also learn to be idle… |
| over-wrought. | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| superfluous. | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| curious, uncannyτὰ π., curious arts, magic | Tagged as
| WhereActs 19:19And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front… |
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 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings 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
- περίεργα1
- περίεργοι1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1A-NPF
Acts
one use
And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
- περίεργαperiergaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: magic arts
1 Timothy
one use
At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.
- περίεργοιperiergoiadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: 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.