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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)
mGNT
5x in 2 unique form(s) TR
5x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
4x in 2 unique form(s)
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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, ἡ (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 TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:23 - But He perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test Me?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:19 - For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”;[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:2 - But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:3 - But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity[fn] that is in Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:14 - that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
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