Strong's #4021: periergos (pronounced per-ee'-er-gos)

from 4012 and 2041; working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic):--busybody, curious arts.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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periergos

1) busy about trifles and neglectful of important matters

1a) especially busy about other folks' affairs, a busybody

1b) of things: impertinent and superfluous

1b1) of magic arts

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from G4012 and G2041

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Acts 19:19: "Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before"
1 Timothy 5:13: "but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not."