ΠΟΛΥΠΡΑΓΜΩΝ, πολυπραγμων
POLYPRAGMŌN, polypragmōn
Sounds Like: po-ly-PRAG-mohn
Translations: busybody, meddlesome, officious, over-busy
From the root: ΠΟΛΥΠΡΑΓΜΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone who is overly active, interfering, or meddlesome in the affairs of others. It is a compound word formed from 'πολύς' (much, many) and 'πράγμα' (deed, affair), literally meaning 'one who does many things' or 'one who is busy with many affairs'. It is often used in a negative sense to denote someone who is a busybody or an officious person.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G4180 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 6:182
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΛΥΠΡΑΓΜΩΝ.
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.
- ΠΟΛΥΠΡΑΓΜΟΝΗ — busybodiness, meddling, officiousness, a meddling, a busybodiness
- ΠΟΛΥΠΡΑΓΜΟΝΩΝ — meddling, being a busybody, being officious, being a meddler, being a busybody
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