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Strong's #5396 - φλυαρέω
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- to utter nonsense, talk idly, prate
- to bring forward idle accusations, make empty charges
- to accuse one falsely with malicious words
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φλῠᾱρ-έω,
Ion. φλῠηρέω: —
talk nonsense, play the fool, ταῦτα λέγουσι φλυηρέοντες Hdt. 2.131, cf. 7.104, Ar. Eq. 545 (anap.), V. 85, Pl. 360, 575 (anap.); παῦσαι φλυαρῶν Philem. 213.1 (troch.); φλυαρεῖς πρός με Men. Pk. 146; οὐ φλυαρῶ (parenthetically) 'no joke', 'seriously', ib. 153: c. acc. cogn., φάσκοντα.. ἀεροβατεῖν καὶ ἄλλην πολλὴν φλυαρίαν φλυαροῦντα Pl. Revelation 19:1-21 c; πολλὰ φλυηρέεις Hdt. 7.103; ταῦτα φ. Isoc. 5.75; τοιαῦτα Pl. R. 337b; ἄφες ἂ φλυαρεῖς ταῦτα Men. Sam. 313. c. part., οὐ μὴ φλυαρήσεις ἔχων Ar. Ra. 202; φλυαρεῖς ἔχων Pl. Grg. 490e; ἔχων φ. Id. Euthd. 295c; Αἰσχύλος φ. φάσκων Id. Smp. 180a; Δερκυλίδας φ. διατρίβων X. HG 3.1.18.
II trans., prate against, ἡμᾶς 3 John 1:10 : — Pass., φλυαρηθέντες καὶ κατακερτομηθέντες Ph. 2.599; to be made a fool of, D.L. 7.173.
φλυαρέω, φλυάρω; (φλύαρος, which see); to utter nonsense, talk idly, prate (Herodotus, Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Plutarch, others); to bring forward idle accusations, make empty charges, Xenophon, Hell. 6, 3, 12; joined with βλασφημεῖν, Isocrates 5, 33: τινα λόγοις πονηροῖς, to accuse one falsely with malicious words, 3 John 1:10 (A. V. prating against etc.).
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* φλυαρέω , -ῶ
(< φλύαρος ),
to talk nonsense: c. acc pers., ἡμᾶς (EV, prating against us), 3 John 1:10.†
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