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Lexicon :: Strong's G3834 - panourgia

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πανουργία
Transliteration
panourgia (Key)
Pronunciation
pan-oorg-ee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:722,770

Strong’s Definitions

πανουργία panourgía, pan-oorg-ee'-ah; from G3835; adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry:—(cunning) craftiness, subtilty.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G3834 in the following manner: craftiness (3x), subtlety (1x), cunning craftiness (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G3834 in the following manner: craftiness (3x), subtlety (1x), cunning craftiness (1x).
  1. craftiness, cunning

  2. a specious or false wisdom

  3. in a good sense, prudence, skill, in undertaking and carrying on affairs

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πανουργία panourgía, pan-oorg-ee'-ah; from G3835; adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry:—(cunning) craftiness, subtilty.
STRONGS G3834:
πανουργία, πανουργίας, (πανοῦργος, which see), craftiness, cunning: Luke 20:23; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 4:14; contextually equivalent to a specious or false wisdom, 1 Corinthians 3:19. (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Lucian, Aelian, others; πᾶσα τέ ἐπιστήμη χωριζομενη δικαιοσύνης καί τῆς ἄλλης ἀρετῆς πανουργία οὐ σοφία φαίνεται, Plato, Menex., p. 247 a. for עָרְמָה in a good sense, prudence, skill, in undertaking and carrying on affairs, Proverbs 1:4; Proverbs 8:5; Sir. 31:10 (Sir. 34:11.))
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
1:4; 8:5
Luke
20:23
1 Corinthians
3:19
2 Corinthians
4:2; 11:3
Ephesians
4:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3834 matches the Greek πανουργία (panourgia),
which occurs 5 times in 5 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:23 - But He saw through their trickery and said to them,
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:19 - For the wisdom of this world is foolishness (absurdity, stupidity) before God; for it is written [in Scripture], “[He is] THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE and CLEVER IN THEIR CRAFTINESS;”
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:2 - But we have renounced the disgraceful things hidden because of shame; not walking in trickery or adulterating the word of God, but by stating the truth [openly and plainly], we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:3 - But I am afraid that, even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:14 - So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit].
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