G4020

περιεργάζομαι

periergazomaiG:V

be a busybody

περι-εργάζομαι [in LXX: Wis.8:5 א1, Sir.3:23 * ;] __1. to waste one's labour about a thing. __2. to be a busybody: 2Th.3:11 (cf. Plat., Apol., 19 B).† (AS)

The KJV translates G4020 in the following manner:

busybodies (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

περιεργάζομαι — periergázomai

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), 2Th 3:11, as in Demosthenes, p. 150, 24 (cf. p. 805, 4 etc.).

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