Quick Definition
a woman, a poor weak woman
Strong's Definition
a little (i.e. foolish) woman
Derivation: a diminutive from G1135 (γυνή);
KJV Usage: silly woman
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
γυναικάριον, γυναικαριου, τό (diminutive from γυνή), a little woman; used contemptuously in 2Ti_3:6 (A. V. silly women; cf. Latinmuliercula). (Diocles. com. in Bekker Anecd., p. 87, 4; Antoninus 5, 11; occasionally in Epictetus) On diminutive ending in ἀριον see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 180; Fritzsche on Mark, p. 638; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 24, 96 (91)).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
γυναικάριον gynaikarion 1x
a little woman; a trifling, weak, silly woman, 2Ti_3:6
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* γυναικάριον , -ου , τό
(dim, of γυνή ),
a little woman; contemptuously, a silly woman ( EV ): 2Ti_3:6 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
γυναικάριον [page 133]
For this NT ἅπ . εἰρ . (Vg. mulierculas ) Sir W. M. Ramsay (in a letter of Dec. 12, 1910) suggests the analogy of Cicero s barbatuli juvenes ( ad. Att. i. 14. 5, and 16. 10), young swells with neatly and fashionably trimmed beards. The γυναικάρια of 2Ti_3:6 would then be society ladies, borne by caprices in various directions and full of idle curiosity. The word is found in Epictetus iv. 1 86 τῶν καλῶν γυναικαρίων , cf. ii. 18. 18, etc. Grimm quotes Diocles, a comedian of v/B.C.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
γυναικάριον, -ου, τό (diminutive of γυνή),
a little woman; contemptuously, a silly woman (EV): 2Ti.3:6.†
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