STRONGS G4020:
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.).
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