King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4020
Transliteration: periergazomai
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-er-gad'-zom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to waste one's labor about (a thing)
Meaning: to waste one's labor about (a thing)
περιεργάζομαι; (see περί, III. 2); to bustle about uselessly, to busy oneself about trifling, needless, useless matters, (Sir. 3:23; Herodotus 3, 46; Plato, Apology, p. 19 b.; others): used apparently of a person officiously inquisitive about others' affairs (A. V. to be a busybody), 2 Thessalonians 3:11, as in Demosthenes, p. 150, 24 (cf. p. 805, 4 etc.).
Word Summary
periergazomai: to waste one's labor about (a thing)
Original Word: περιεργάζομαιTransliteration: periergazomai
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-er-gad'-zom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to waste one's labor about (a thing)
Meaning: to waste one's labor about (a thing)
Strong's Concordance
be a busybody. From peri and ergazomai; to work all around, i.e. Bustle about (meddle) -- be a busybody.
see GREEK peri
see GREEK ergazomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4020: περιεργάζομαιπεριεργάζομαι; (see περί, III. 2); to bustle about uselessly, to busy oneself about trifling, needless, useless matters, (Sir. 3:23; Herodotus 3, 46; Plato, Apology, p. 19 b.; others): used apparently of a person officiously inquisitive about others' affairs (A. V. to be a busybody), 2 Thessalonians 3:11, as in Demosthenes, p. 150, 24 (cf. p. 805, 4 etc.).