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G4691

σπερμολόγος

spermologos

Adjective · From σπέρμα (G4690) and λέγω (G3004)

From G4690 and G3004; a seed-picker (as the crow), i.e. (figuratively) a sponger, loafer (specially, a gossip or trifler in talk):—babbler.

Outline

  1. picking up seed
    1. of birds, esp. of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields
  2. 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

Usages

Acts 17:18

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Breakdown

Epicureans:A disciple or student of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. Stoicks: (Stoics) Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC.

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