Gloss
idle, lazy; useless, ineffective; careless
Forms of the word
Dictionary
ἀργός, ή, όν
Greek transliteration
argos
Simplified transliteration
argos
Numbers
Strong's number
692
GK Number
734
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
8
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
a-1a(2a)
Definition
pr. inactive, unemployed, Mt. 20:3, 6; idle, averse from labor, 1 Tim. 5:13; Tit. 1:12; met. 2 Pet. 1:8; unprofitable, hollow, or by impl., injurious, Mt. 12:36; Jas. 2:20*
Greek-English Concordance for ἀργός
| Matthew 12:36 | But I say to you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every careless (argon | ἀργόν | acc sg neut) word they speak. |
| Matthew 20:3 | And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace with nothing (argous | ἀργούς | acc pl masc) to do. |
| Matthew 20:6 | And about the eleventh hour, when he had gone out and found others standing around, he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle (argoi | ἀργοί | nom pl masc) all day long?’ |
| 1 Timothy 5:13 | But at the same time they also learn to be idlers (argai | ἀργαί | nom pl fem), flitting about among houses, but not only idlers (argai | ἀργαί | nom pl fem) but also gossips and busybodies, speaking about things that they should not. |
| Titus 1:12 | One of them, their own prophet, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy (argai | ἀργαί | nom pl fem) gluttons.” |
| James 2:20 | Would you like to be shown, you shallow person, that faith without works is useless (argē | ἀργή | nom sg fem)? |
| 2 Peter 1:8 | For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will make you effective and productive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
