Quick Definition
βαττολογέω v. I chatter, utter empty words
Strong's Definition
from Battos (a proverbial stammerer) and 3056; to stutter, i.e. (by implication) to prate tediously
KJV Usage: use vain repetitions
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | βάττος + λέγω
33.88 · Communication · Speak, Talk
to use many words, to speak for a long time to speak much or extensively, with a possible added implication of meaningless words For another interpretation of βατταλογέω in MAT 6:7, see βατταλογέω[b] 33.89.
33.89 · Communication · Speak, Talk
to babble to utter senseless sounds or to speak indistinctly and incoherently For another interpretation of βατταλογέω in MAT 6:7, see βατταλογέω[a] 33.88.
In some languages the equivalent of ‘to babble’ is ‘to speak like a baby’ or ‘to speak sounds that make no sense.’
1 MAT 6:7 βατταλογέω in the sense of ‘to babble’ or ‘to utter senseless sounds’ is treated in 33.89. The justification for βατταλογέω in the sense of ‘to speak much’ is probably to be found in the context of MAT 6:7, where the term πολυλογία (33.87) appears to be an explanation of the meaning of βατταλογέω.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βαττολογέω [T WH βατταλ. (with δὲ B, see WH. App. p- 152)],-@: 1 aor. subj. βαττολογήσω; a. to stammer, and, since stammerers are accustomed to repeat the same sounds, b. to repeat the same things over and over, to use many and idle words, to babble, prate; so. Mt. vi. 7, where it is explained by ἐν τῇ πολυλογίᾳ, (Vulg. multum loqui; [A. V. to use vain repetitions]); cf. Tholuck ad loe. Some suppose the word to be derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered (Hat. 4, 155); others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems; but comparing βατταρίζειν, which has the same meaning, and βάρβαρος (4: v-), it seems far more probable that the word is onomatopoetic. (Simplic. in Epict. [ench. 30 fin.] p. 340 ed. Schweigh.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βατταλογέω battalogeō 1x
also spelled βαττολογέω, pr. to stammer; hence, to babble; to use vain repetitions, Mt. 6:7*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† βατταλογέω, -ῶ (Rec. βαττολ-, D, βλαττ- = βατταρίζω, prob. onomatop.; v. MM, s.v.; DCG, ii, 499b, 790a); to stammer, repeat idly: Mt 6:7 (Cremer, 765).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βαττολογέω. In D this word is βλαττολογέω, the form of which suggests an approximation towards the Latin 6/afero— [query cf. provincial English é/e¢her, with same meaning, both starting from *y/afero]. The Latin text (α) has not the word, so that if Latin influence is recognizable here it must lie somewhere in the complex history of the Bezan text itself. Βαττολογέω may be by haplology for βατταλολογέω, in which some connexion may be suspected with Βάτταλος on the one side, the nickname of Demosthenes, and Aramaic /a/¢a/ (“ leer, nichtig,” says Wellhausen on Mt 67) on the other. Whether Greek or Aramaic, or neither, is the borrower, we must not stay to ask. If the great orator was thus nicknamed because of the torrent of words at his command, which made envious rivals call him ‘‘the gabbler, it will fit his case better than the highly im|
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βαττολογέω (battologeō) — to babble. βαττο-λογέω, ={βατταρίζω}, speak stammeringly, say the same thing over and over again, [NT+6th c.AD+]