G4021 περίεργος

Strong's Greek Concordance · 2 KJV occurrences

περίεργος

períergos

Definition

working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic)

KJV Renderings

busybody, curious arts

Derivation / Etymology

from G4012 (περί) and G2041 (ἔργον);

KJV Verses (2)

Acts 19:19Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
1 Timothy 5:13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.