STRONGS G692:
ἀργός,
-όν, and in later writings from Aristotle, hist. anim. 10, 40 [vol. i., p. 627
a, 15] on and consequently also in the
N. T. with the feminine
ἀργή, which among the early Greeks
Epimenides alone is said to have used,
Titus 1:12; cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 104f; id. Paralip., p. 455ff; Winers Grammar, 68 (67) [cf. 24; Buttmann, 25 (23)], (contracted from
ἄεργος which Homer uses, from
α privative and
ἔργον without work, without labor, doing nothing),
inactive, idle;
a. free from labor, at leisure (
ἀργὸν εἶναι, Herodotus 5, 6):
Matthew 20:3,
6 [
Rec.];
1 Timothy 5:13.
b. lazy, shunning the labor which one ought to perform, (Homer, Iliad 9, 320
ὅ, τ’ ἀεργὸς ἀνήρ,
ὅ,
τε πολλὰ ἐοργώς):
πίστις,
James 2:20 (L T Tr WH for R G
νεκρά);
γαστέρες ἀργαί i. e. idle gluttons, from
Epimenides,
Titus 1:12 (
Nicet. ann. 7, 4, 135 d.
εἰς ἀργὰς γαστέρας ὀχετηγήσας);
ἀργὸς καὶ ἄκαρπος εἴς τι,
2 Peter 1:8.
c. of things from which no profit is derived, although they can and ought to be productive; as of fields, trees, gold and silver, (cf. Grimm on Wis. 14:5; [Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 2]);
unprofitable, ῤῆμα ἀργόν, by litotes equivalent to
pernicious (see
ἄκαρπος):
Matthew 12:36.
[Synonyms: ἀργός, βραδύς, νωθρός: ἀργ. idle, involving blame-worthiness; βρ. slow (tardy), having a purely temporal reference and no necessary bad sense; νωθρ. sluggish, descriptive of constitutional qualities and suggestive of censure. Schmidt ch. 49; Trench § 104]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
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Matthew
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12:36; 20:3; 20:6
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1 Timothy
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5:13
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Titus
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1:12; 1:12
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James
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2:20
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2 Peter
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1:8