2001 Translation

AERGŌN, aergōn

Sounds Like: ah-ER-gohn

Translations: of idle, of lazy, of useless, of inactive, of unemployed

From the root: ΑΕΡΓΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something or someone as idle, lazy, or useless. It is a compound word formed from the negative prefix 'α-' (alpha privative, meaning 'not') and 'ἔργον' (ergon), meaning 'work' or 'deed'. Thus, it literally means 'without work' or 'not working'. It can be used to describe people who are unproductive or things that are ineffective.

Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine, Feminine or Neuter

Strong’s number: G0008 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Proverbs — 15:19

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΕΡΓΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΕΡΓΟΥ — of idle, of a lazy, of inactive, of useless
• ΑΕΡΓΟΣ — idle, inactive, useless, unprofitable, barren
• ΑΕΡΓΟΥ — of idle, of useless, of inactive, of barren, of unprofitable
• ΑΕΡΓΩΝ — of idle, of lazy, of inactive, of unprofitable, of useless

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