4691. spermologos
Strong's Concordance
spermologos: a seed picker, fig. one who picks up scraps of knowledge
Original Word: σπερμολόγος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: spermologos
Phonetic Spelling: (sper-mol-og'-os)
Definition: a seed picker, one who picks up scraps of knowledge
Usage: a babbler, gossiper, one who picks up seeds and trifles as does a bird.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from sperma and legó (to pick out, same verb as legó but with a different mean.)
Definition
a seed picker, fig. one who picks up scraps of knowledge
NASB Translation
idle babbler (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4691: σπερμολόγος

σπερμολόγος, σπερμολογον (σπέρμα, and λέγω to collect);

1. picking up seeds: used of birds, Plug. Demet. 28; Athen. 9, p. 387 f.; especially of the crow or daw that picks up grain in the fields (German Saatkrähe), Aristophanes av. 232, 579; Aristotle, h. a. 8, 8, p. 592{b}, 28, and other writings.

2. of men: "lounging about the market-place and picking up a subsistence by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise" (Eustathius on Homer, Odyssey 5, 490 σπερμολογοι. οἱ περί τά ἐμπορία καί ἀγορᾶς διατρίβοντες διά τό ἀναλέγεσθαι τά ἐκ τῶν φορτιων ἐπορρεοντα καί διά ζῆν ἐκ τούτων); hence, beggarly, abject, vile (a parasite); getting a living by flattery and buffoonery, Athen. 3, p. 85 f.; Plutarch, mor., p. 456 d.; a substantive, σπερμολόγος, an empty talker, babbler (Demosthenes, p. 269, 19; Athen. 8, p. 344 c.): Acts 17:18.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
babbler.

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

see GREEK sperma

see GREEK lego

Forms and Transliterations
σπερμολογος σπερμολόγος spermologos spermológos
Links
Interlinear GreekInterlinear HebrewStrong's NumbersEnglishman's Greek ConcordanceEnglishman's Hebrew ConcordanceParallel Texts
Englishman's Concordance
Acts 17:18 Adj-NMS
GRK: θέλοι ὁ σπερμολόγος οὗτος λέγειν
NAS: would this idle babbler wish
KJV: will this babbler say?
INT: may desire of the babbler this to say

Strong's Greek 4691
1 Occurrence


σπερμολόγος — 1 Occ.









4690
Top of Page
Top of Page