ἀργόςargós
GreekG6928 occurrences (KJV)
inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless
KJV renders it: barren, idle, slow
Where it appears(showing the first 6 of 8)
- Matt 12:36I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
- Matt 20:3He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
- Matt 20:6About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
- 1 Tim 5:13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
- Titus 1:12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
- 2 Pet 1:8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.