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G1133 γυναικάριον (gynaikárion)
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Quick Definition

γυναικάριον, ου, τό n.n. a woman, a poor weak woman

Strong's Definition

a diminutive from 1135; a little (i.e. foolish) woman

KJV Usage: silly woman

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, n. | -ου | γυνή

9.35 · People · Females

foolish woman, frivolous woman (a diminutive, pejorative derivative of γυνή[a] ‘woman,’ 9.34) an adult woman of foolish and/or frivolous charter

2TI 3:6

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

γυναικάριον, -ov, τό, (dimin. fr. γυνή), a little woman; | used contemptuously in 2 Tim. iii. ὁ [A. V. silly women ; ef. Lat. muliercula}. (Diocles. com. in Bekk. Anecd. p. 87, 4; Antonin. 5, 11; occasionally in Epictet.) On | dimin. ending in ἄριον see Lob. ad Phryn. p. 180; Fritzsche on Mk. p. 638; [cef. W. 24, 96 (91) ].

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

γυναικάριον gynaikarion 1x

a little woman; a trifling, weak, silly woman, 2 Tim. 3:6*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* γυναικάριον, -ου, τό (dim. of γυνή), a little woman; contemptuously, a silly woman (EV): II Ti 3:6.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

γυναικάριον. For this NT ἅπ. elp. (Vg. meudierculas) Sir W. M. Ramsay (in a letter of Dec. 12, 1910) suggests the analogy of Cicero’s barbatuli juvenes (ad. Att. i. 14. §, and 16. 10), young swells with neatly and fashionably trimmed beards. The γυναικάρια of 2 Tim 3° 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. 11. 18. 18, etc. Grimm quotes Diocles, a comedian of v/B.C:

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

γυναικάριον (gunaikarion) — weak-willed woman. γῠναικ-άριον, τό, diminutive of γυνή, [NT+1st c.AD+].

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