ἈΡΓΟΥΝΤΕΣ, ἀργουντες
ARGOUNTES, argountes
Sounds Like: ar-GOON-tes
Translations: being idle, doing nothing, being inactive, idle, inactive
From the root: ΑΡΓΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'being idle' or 'doing nothing'. It describes someone who is not working or is inactive. It can function adjectivally, describing a noun (e.g., 'idle people'), or adverbially, describing the action of a verb (e.g., 'they sat, being idle').
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G0691 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 12:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΡΓΕΩ.
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.
- ἈΡΓΕΙΤΑΙ — is idle, is inactive, is at rest, is kept fallow, is left uncultivated
- ἈΡΓΗΣΑΝΤΑΣ — being idle, having been idle, having become idle, having ceased working
- ἈΡΓΗΣΩΜΕΝ — we will be idle, we will be inactive, we will be useless, we will be lazy
- ἈΡΓΟΥΜΕΝ — we are idle, we are inactive, we are doing nothing
- ΑΡΓΕΙ — is idle, is inactive, delays, lingers, neglects, is useless
- ΑΡΓΕΙΝ — to be idle, to be inactive, to be unemployed, to delay, to linger
- ΑΡΓΕΙΤΑΙ — is idle, is inactive, is unemployed, is useless, is ineffective
- ΑΡΓΕΩ — to be idle, to be inactive, to be unemployed, to delay, to linger
- ΑΡΓΟΥΝΤΑΣ — being idle, doing nothing, being inactive, being useless
- ἨΡΓΗΣΑΝ — they ceased, they were idle, they were inactive
- ἨΡΓΟΥΝ — they were idle, they were doing nothing, they were inactive
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