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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #4691 - σπερμολόγος

Transliteration

spermológos

Phonetics

sper-mol-og'-os

Origin

from (G4690) and (G3004)

Parts of Speech

Adjective

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer's

picking up seed
1. of birds, esp. of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields
metaph.
1. lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise
2. hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)
3. getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery
4. an empty talker, babbler

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Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (1)

Acts

NAS (2)

Acts

HCS (1)

Acts

BSB (1)

Acts

ESV (1)

Acts

WEB (1)

Acts

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

σπερμο-λόγος, ον, ( λέγω )

picking up seeds, of birds, Id. Demetr. 28, Alex.Mynd. ap. Ath. 9.388a: as Subst., rook, Arist. HA 592b28; glossed κολοιῶδες ζῷον, Hsch.; σπερμολόγων τε γένη Ar. Av. 232 (lyr.), cf. 579 .

2. τὰ σπερμολόγα τῶν παιδαρίων guttersnipes, Ath. 3.85f .

II picking up scraps, gossiping, ἄνθρωπος D.H. 19.5 ( Sup., ib. 4 ); also πικρὰ καὶ ς. ῥήματα Plu. 2.456c .

III as Subst., one who picks up and retails scraps of knowledge, an idle babbler, gossip, D. 18.127, Acts 17:18, Ath. 8.344c .

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

*σπερμολόγος , -ον

(<σπέρμα , λέγω ),

a seed picker;

(a) prop., of birds (Arist., Aristoph, al.);

(b) in Attic slang, of an idler who lives on scraps picked up in the agora; hence, as subst., ὁ σ ., an idle babbler: Acts 17:18.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

";fellow-sharer,"; ";joint partaker,"; c. gen. pers. as in Philippians 1:7, occurs in P Bilabel 19 (b.).2 (A.D. 110) Δίδυμος Ἀπολλωνίου Ἀλλίωνι Ἀπολλωνίου συνκοινωνῶ χα (ίρειν).

List of Word Forms

σπερμολογος σπερμολόγος spermologos spermológos

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