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Strong's #4468 - ῥᾳδιουργία
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- ease in doing, faculty
- levity or easiness in thinking or acting
- love of a lazy effeminate life
- unscrupulous, cunning, mischief
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ῥᾳδιουργ-ία, ἡ,
self-indulgence, X. Cyr. 1.6.34 (prob. the interpr. εὐκολία in Phot., Suid., etc., refers to this passage).
2. laziness, sloth, ib. 7.5.74, Mem. 2.1.20.
II knavery, PEnteux. 30.11 (iii B.C.), Plb. 12.9.5, 13.4.4; δόλος καὶ ῥ . Acts 13:10, etc.; of historians, Plb. 12.25E. 2; fraud, Plu. Cat.Mi. 16 .
ῤᾳδιουργία, ῤᾳδιουργίας, ἡ (see ῤᾳδιούργημα, cf. πανουργία);
1. properly, ease in doing, facility.
2. levity or easiness in thinking and acting; love of a lazy and effeminate life (Xenophon).
3. unscrupulousness, cunning, mischief (A. V. villany): Acts 13:10. (Polybius 12, 10, 5; often in Plutarch.)
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* ῥᾳδιουργία , -ας , ἡ
(see ῥᾳδιούργημα ),
1. ease in doing, facility (Xen.).
2. easiness, laziness (Xen.).
3. recklessness, wickedness (of lewdness, Xen.; fraud, Plut.; in Papyri, of theft, MM, xxii): Acts 13:10.†
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a word found in the LXX to denote a measure = 1½ modii, or nearly three English gallons (Matthew 13:33, Luke 13:21 : Jos. Antt. IX. 85 (= ix. 4. 5)). Instead of connecting the word with the Aram. סָאתָא, Otto points to a root-form * σάτιον, corresponding to the Coptic saidion, ";a wine-measure of Sais"; : see Archiv iii. p. 448.
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