STRONGS G5397:
φλύαρος,
φλυαρον (
φλύω, 'to boil up,' 'throw up bubbles', of water; and since bubbles are hollow and useless things, 'to indulge in empty and foolish talk'); of persons,
uttering or doing silly things, garrulous, babbling (
A. V. tattlers):
1 Timothy 5:13 (
Dionysius Halicarnassus, de comp. verb. 26, vol. 5:215, 3; others); of things,
foolish, trifling, vain:
φιλοσοφία, 4 Macc. 5:10. (
Plato,
Josephus, Vita §31; often in
Plutarch;
Aeschylus dial.
Socrates 3, 13; others.)
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