Lexicon panourgos: ready to do anything, crafty, skillful Original Word: πανοῦργος, ονPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: panourgos Phonetic Spelling: (pan-oor'-gos) Short Definition: cunning, crafty Definition: cunning, crafty, skilful, clever. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3835 panoúrgos – properly, a person doing anything to get their way ("anything it takes"). 3935 /paríēmi ("crafty-fellow") is used only in 2 Cor 12:16 where it describes a scoundrel (an unscrupulous person) who will do any evil to "succeed." See 3834 (panourgia). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom pas and ergonDefinitionready to do anything, crafty, skillful NASB Translationcrafty (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3835: πανοῦργοςπανοῦργος, πανοῦργον ( πᾶς and ἘΠΤΩ equivalent to ἐργάζομαι; on the accent, see κακοῦργος), the Sept. for עָרוּם; skillful, clever, i. e.: 1. in a good sense, fit to undertake and accomplish anything, dexterous; wise, sagacious, skillful (Aristotle, Polybius, Plutarch, others; the Sept. Proverbs 13:1; Proverbs 28:2). But far more frequent. 2. in a bad sense, crafty, cunning, knavish, treacherous, deceitful, (Tragg., Aristophanes, Plato, Plutarch, others; the Sept.; Sir. 6:32 (31) (but here in a good sense); , etc.): 2 Corinthians 12:16.
Strong's crafty. From pas and ergon; all-working, i.e. Adroit (shrewd) -- crafty. see GREEK pas see GREEK ergon |
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