Strong G692ἀργός
idle
- Transliteration
- argos
- Pronunciation
- ar-gos'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Detailed definition
ἀργός, -όν
(in late Gk., incl. NT, -ή, -όν; ἀ- neg., ἔργον) [in LXX: 3Ki.6:7 (מַסָּע), Wis.14:5 15:15, Sir.37:11 38:28 *;]
inactive, idle: Mat.20:3, 6, 1Ti.5:13, Tit.1:12, 2Pe.1:8. Metaphorical, of things, inactive, ineffective, worthless: ῥῆμα, Mat.12:36; πίστις, Jas.2:20 (see Cremer, 259 f.).†
SYN.: βραδύς, slow; νωθρός, sluggish (Tr., Syn., § civ) (AS)
(in late Gk., incl. NT, -ή, -όν; ἀ- neg., ἔργον) [in LXX: 3Ki.6:7 (מַסָּע), Wis.14:5 15:15, Sir.37:11 38:28 *;]
inactive, idle: Mat.20:3, 6, 1Ti.5:13, Tit.1:12, 2Pe.1:8. Metaphorical, of things, inactive, ineffective, worthless: ῥῆμα, Mat.12:36; πίστις, Jas.2:20 (see Cremer, 259 f.).†
SYN.: βραδύς, slow; νωθρός, sluggish (Tr., Syn., § civ) (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G692 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- idle4
- barren1
- slow1
First verses
- Matthew 12:36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
- Matthew 20:3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
- Matthew 20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
- 1 Timothy 5:13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
- Titus 1:12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
- 2 Peter 1:8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀργός, όν,
Blater ή, όν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1167a11, “Mete.” 352a13, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Lapidibus” 27, 2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus 12.11, etc.: (_contraction_ from ἀεργός))]:—properly not working the ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.6)]; idle, lazy, opposed to ἐργάτις, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 97, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 53, etc.; γαστέρες ἀ. 6th c.BC: Epimenides Philosophus 1; ἀ. ἐπιθυμίαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 572e)]; ἀ. τὴν διάνοιαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 458a; τὸ πρὸς ἅπαν ξυνετὸν ἐπὶ πᾶν ἀ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82)]; ἂν ἀ. ᾖ if he have no trade, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 123.3; πότερον ἀνθρώπου οὐδέν ἐστιν [ἔργον] ἀλλ᾽ ἀργὸν πέφυκε; 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1097b30)]: with genitive of things, idle at a thing, free from it, τῶν οἴκοθεν from domestic toils, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1000; πόνων σφοδρῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 835d; γυναῖκας ἀργοὺς ταλασίας [prev. work] 806a)]; ἀ. αἰσχρῶν slow to evil, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 411; ἀργότεραι ἐς τὸ δρᾶν τι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.67; ἀ. περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 966d.)]
B.2 of things, δόρυ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1387)]; of money, lying idle, yielding no return, opposed to ἐνεργός, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.7)] and 20; of land, lying fallow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.132, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.19, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.12.2)]; opposed to πεφυτευμένος, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“IG” 7.2226 B (Thisbe, 3rd c.AD))]; διατριβὴ ἀ. in which nothing is done, fruitless, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1498 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.44; χρόνον ἀργὸν διάγειν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 31)]. adverb ἀργῶς, ἐπιμέλεσθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.4.7; ἔχειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.3: _comparative_ and _superlative_ ἀργότερον, -ότατα, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 15.6 and 1.)]
B.2.b ἀ. λόγος, name of a sophism, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.277, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.574e.)]
B.II passive,unwrought, ἁρμός, κυμάτιον, [Refs (“IG” 1.322b23,59; πυροὶ ἀ.)]unprepared for eating, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 13; ἄργυρος 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.12.3)]; βύρσαι undressed hides, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus [same place])]; unpolished, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Lapidibus” 27.)]
B.II.2 not done, left undone, κοὐκ ἦν ἔτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1605; ἓν δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἡμῖν ἀ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 766)]; οὐκ ἐν ἀργοῖς not among things neglected, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 287; τὰ μὲν προβέβηκεν ἀμήχανόν ἐστι γενέσθαι ἀργά 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 584.)]
B.II.3 unattempted, μάχη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 272a.)]
B.II.4 Astrology texts, τόπος ἀ., name of the [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (8th of the 12 'houses', 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 128, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “M.” 4; πλανήτης 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.3.3; ζῴδιον 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 5.15.)]
Blater ή, όν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1167a11, “Mete.” 352a13, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Lapidibus” 27, 2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus 12.11, etc.: (_contraction_ from ἀεργός))]:—properly not working the ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.6)]; idle, lazy, opposed to ἐργάτις, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 97, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 53, etc.; γαστέρες ἀ. 6th c.BC: Epimenides Philosophus 1; ἀ. ἐπιθυμίαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 572e)]; ἀ. τὴν διάνοιαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 458a; τὸ πρὸς ἅπαν ξυνετὸν ἐπὶ πᾶν ἀ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82)]; ἂν ἀ. ᾖ if he have no trade, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 123.3; πότερον ἀνθρώπου οὐδέν ἐστιν [ἔργον] ἀλλ᾽ ἀργὸν πέφυκε; 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1097b30)]: with genitive of things, idle at a thing, free from it, τῶν οἴκοθεν from domestic toils, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1000; πόνων σφοδρῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 835d; γυναῖκας ἀργοὺς ταλασίας [prev. work] 806a)]; ἀ. αἰσχρῶν slow to evil, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 411; ἀργότεραι ἐς τὸ δρᾶν τι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.67; ἀ. περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 966d.)]
B.2 of things, δόρυ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1387)]; of money, lying idle, yielding no return, opposed to ἐνεργός, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.7)] and 20; of land, lying fallow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.132, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.19, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.12.2)]; opposed to πεφυτευμένος, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“IG” 7.2226 B (Thisbe, 3rd c.AD))]; διατριβὴ ἀ. in which nothing is done, fruitless, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1498 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.44; χρόνον ἀργὸν διάγειν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 31)]. adverb ἀργῶς, ἐπιμέλεσθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.4.7; ἔχειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.3: _comparative_ and _superlative_ ἀργότερον, -ότατα, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 15.6 and 1.)]
B.2.b ἀ. λόγος, name of a sophism, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.277, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.574e.)]
B.II passive,unwrought, ἁρμός, κυμάτιον, [Refs (“IG” 1.322b23,59; πυροὶ ἀ.)]unprepared for eating, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 13; ἄργυρος 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.12.3)]; βύρσαι undressed hides, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus [same place])]; unpolished, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Lapidibus” 27.)]
B.II.2 not done, left undone, κοὐκ ἦν ἔτ᾽ οὐδὲν ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1605; ἓν δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἡμῖν ἀ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 766)]; οὐκ ἐν ἀργοῖς not among things neglected, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 287; τὰ μὲν προβέβηκεν ἀμήχανόν ἐστι γενέσθαι ἀργά 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 584.)]
B.II.3 unattempted, μάχη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 272a.)]
B.II.4 Astrology texts, τόπος ἀ., name of the [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (8th of the 12 'houses', 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 128, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “M.” 4; πλανήτης 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.3.3; ζῴδιον 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 5.15.)]