Quick Definition
prating, talking foolishly
Strong's Definition
a garrulous person, i.e. prater
Derivation: from (to bubble);
KJV Usage: tattler
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φλύαρος, φλυαρον (φλύω, 'to boil up,' 'throw up bubbles', of water; and since bubbles are hollow and useless things, 'to indulge in empty and foolish talk'); of persons, uttering or doing silly things, garrulous, babbling (A. V. tattlers): 1Ti_5:13 (Dionysius Halicarnassus, de comp. verb. 26, vol. 5:215, 3; others); of things, foolish, trifling, vain: φιλοσοφία, 4Ma_5:10. (Plato, Josephus, Vita §31; often in Plutarch; Aeschylus dial. Socrates 3, 13; others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φλύαρος phlyaros 1x
a gossip, tattler, 1Ti_5:13
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** φλύαρος , -ον
( < φλύω , to babble ),
[in LXX : 4Ma_5:10 * ;]
babbling, garrulous: 1Ti_5:13 ( EV , tattlers; of things, φιλοσοφία , 4Mac, l.c .).†
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
φλύαρος φλύα_ρος, ὁ, [Etym: φλύω] "silly talk, foolery, nonsense", Ar. "a silly talker, tatler, babbler", Plat. , NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
φλύαρος, -ον
(φλύω, to babble), [in LXX: 4Ma.5:10 * ;]
babbling, garrulous: 1Ti.5:13 (EV, tattlers; of things, φιλοσοφία, 4Mac, l.with).†
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