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Strong's #692: argos (pronounced ar-gos')

from 1 (as a negative particle) and 2041; inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless:--barren, idle, slow.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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argos

1) free from labour, at leisure

2) lazy, shunning the labour which one ought to perform

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2041

Citing in TDNT: 1:452, 76




Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Matthew 12:36: "unto you, That every idle word that men"
Matthew 20:3: "and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,"
Matthew 20:6: "and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why"
Matthew 20:6: "all the day idle?"
1 Timothy 5:13: "And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not"
1 Timothy 5:13: "wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also"
Titus 1:12: "liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."
2 Peter 1:8: "abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the"









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