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Strong's #945 - βαττολογέω

Transliteration
battologéō
Phonetics
bat-tol-og-eh'-o
Origin
from Battos (a proverbial stammerer) and (G3056)
Parts of Speech
Verb
TDNT
1:597,103
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. to stammer
  2. to repeat the same things over and over, to use many idle words, to babble, prate. Some suppose the word derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered; others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems.
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Matthew 2
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Matthew 3
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Matthew 1
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Matthew 2
Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

βαττο-λογέω,

= βατταρίζω, speak stammeringly, say the same thing over and over again, Matthew 6:7, Simp. in Epict. p.91D.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

βαττολογέω (T WH βατταλογέω (with א B, see WH's Appendix, p. 152)), βαττολόγω: 1 aorist subjunctive βαττολογήσω;

a. to stammer, and, since stammerers are accustomed to repeat the same sounds,

b. to repeat the same things over and over, to use many and idle words, to babble, prate; so Matthew 6:7, where it is explained by ἐν τῇ πολυλογία, (Vulg. multum loqui; (A. V. to use vain repetitions)); cf. Tholuck at the passage Some suppose the word to be derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered (Herodotus 4, 155); others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems; but comparing βατταρίζειν, which has the same meaning, and βάρβαρος (which see), it seems fax more probable that the word is onomatopoetic. (Simplicius, in Epictetus (ench. 30 at the end), p. 340, Schweigh edition.)


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

*† βατταλογέω , -

(Rec. βαττολ -, D, βλαττ - = βατταρίζω , prob. onomatop.; v. MM, s v; DCG, ii, 499b, 790 a);

to stammer, repeat idly: Matthew 6:7 (Cremer, 765).†


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

In D this word is βλαττολογέω , the form of which suggests an approximation towards the Latin blatero—[query cf. provincial English blether, with same meaning, both starting from *mlatero]. The Latin text (d) has not the word, so that if Latin influence is recognizable here it must lie somewhere in the complex history of the Bezan text itself. Βαττολογέω may be by haplology for βατταλολογέω , in which some connexion may be suspected with Βάτταλος on the one side, the nickname of Demosthenes, and Aramaic battâl (";leer, nichtig,"; says Wellhausen on Matthew 6:7) on the other. Whether Greek or Aramaic, or neither, is the borrower, we must not stay to ask. If the great orator was thus nicknamed because of the torrent of words at his command, which made envious rivals call him ";the gabbler, it will fit his case better than the highly improbable ";stammering"; connexion, and will suit the ἐν τη πολυλογίᾳ by which the verb is explained in Matthew 6:7. (See Holden on Plutarch’s Demosthenes, ch. iv.)

 

 


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List of Word Forms
βατταλογησητε βατταλογήσητε βαττολογήσητε βδέλλη battalogesete battalogēsēte battalogḗsete battalogḗsēte
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