περιεργάζομαιperiergázomai
to work all around, i.e. bustle about (meddle)
Greek (New Testament) · G4020
Meanings
1. to waste one's labour about a thing.
2. to be a busybody: 2 Thessalonians 3:11.
Same root
- περίperí · G4012properly, through (all over), i.e. around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive case denoting the subject or occasion or superlative point; with the accusative case the locality, circuit, matter, circumstance or general period)
- ἐργάζομαιergázomai · G2038to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc.
Where it appears
Appears 1 times in the Bible.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:11 Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people’s business.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.