Word Summary
gynaikarion: a little woman, (contemptuously) a silly woman
Original Word: γυναικάριονTransliteration: gynaikarion
Phonetic Spelling: (goo-nahee-kar'-ee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a little woman, (contemptuously) a silly woman
Meaning: a little woman, (contemptuously) a silly woman
Strong's Concordance
idle or foolish woman.
A diminutive from gune; a little (i.e. Foolish) woman -- silly woman.
see GREEK gune
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1133: γυναικάριονγυναικάριον,
γυναικαριου,
τό (diminutive from
γυνή),
a little woman; used contemptuously in
2 Timothy 3:6 (
A. V. silly women; cf. Latin
muliercula). (
Diocles. com. in Bekker Anecd., p. 87, 4;
Antoninus 5, 11; occasionally in
Epictetus) On diminutive ending in
ἀριον see
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 180; Fritzsche on Mark, p. 638; (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 24, 96 (91)).