Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literatureby John McClintock & James Strong (1880)
(περίεργος, officious,1Ti 5:13; “curious,” Act 19:19; περιεργάζομαι, to be over-busy,2Th 3:11; ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος, interfering in other people’s concerns,1Pe 4:15), a person of meddlesome habits, emphatically condemned in the above texts of the N.T. as being akin to the tattler and scandalmonger.
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