Strong’s G4021 · Greek
περίεργος
períergos · per-ee'-er-gos
Origin from περί (G4012) and ἔργον (G2041);
Meaning working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic)
In the King James Version busybody, curious arts.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 19:19Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
- 1 Timothy 5:13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.