Strong's #945: battologeo (pronounced bat-tol-og-eh'-o)

from Battos (a proverbial stammerer) and 3056; to stutter, i.e. (by implication) to prate tediously:--use vain repetitions.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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battologeō

1) to stammer

2) to repeat the same things over and over, to use many idle words, to babble, prate. Some suppose the word derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered; others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems.

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from Battos (a proverbial stammerer) and G3056

Citing in TDNT: 1:597, 103

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

Matthew 6:7: "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for"