G691: ἀργέω (argéō)

G691 ἀργέω (argéō)

Greek

Quick Definition

ἀργέω v. I linger, delay, am idle

Strong's Definition

from 692; to be idle, i.e. (figuratively) to delay

KJV Usage: linger

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀργέω (G0691)

verb | ἀ- + ἐργάζομαι

42.2 · Perform, Do · Function

to be idle, to not be in force, to not be operative (derivative of ἀργός[a] ‘idle, not working,’ 42.46) to not be functioning

2PE 2:3

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀργέω, -@; (to be ἀργός, 4. ν.} 10 be idle, inactive ; contextually, to linger, delay: 2 Pet. ii. 3 οἷς τὸ κρίμα ἔκπαλαι οὐκ ἀργεῖ, i.e. whose punishment has long been impending and will shortly fall. (In Grk. writ. fr. Soph. down.) [Comp. : κατ-αργέω.]

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀργέω argeō 1x

pr. to be unemployed; to be inoperative, to linger, 2 Pet. 2:3*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀργέω, -ῶ

(< ἀργός), [in LXX: Es 4:24, Ec 12:3 (בּטל), I Es 2:30, Si 30:36 (33:27), II Mac 5:25*;]

to be idle; τὸ κρίμα . . . ἀ., lingers (cf. MGr. ἀργά, late: MM, s.v.): II Pe 2:3.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀργέω. In P Petr Il. 4 (9)* (B.c. 255-4) certain quarrymen complain νυνὶ δὲ ἀργοῦμεν διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν σώμ[ζα]τα ὥστε ἀνακαθᾶραι τὴν ἄμμον, “but now we are idle (‘playing’) for want of slaves to clear away the sand”: cf. 2d. 9 (3)? (B.C. 241-39), ἐὰν ἀργῶσιν, and 14 (1a)*. Later instances of the verb are afforded by P Lond 131* (farm-accounts, A.D. 78) (=I. p. 190 f.), P Oxy IV. 725% (a.p. 183), a contract of apprenticeship where provision is made that the apprentice shall have twenty days’ holiday in the year, ἀργήσει δὲ ὁ παῖς εἰς λόγον ἑορτῶν κατ᾽ ἔτος ἡμέρας εἴκοσι : εἴ, 2. ἐὰν δὲ πλείονας τούτων ἀργήσῃ, if he exceeds this number from idleness he is to make it good afterwards, 7b. 1. 1217°% (iii/A.D.) μὴ ἀφῇς αὐτοὺς ἀργῆσε ὅλους, “‘do not let them be wholly idle,” and P Fay 13115 (iii/iv A.D.) τὰ ταυρκὰ (1 -ἰκὰ) μὴ ἀργείτωι. Add P Flor I. τοιῦ (late i/A.D.) ἐὰν ἀργήση[ται 2] εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν, P Lond 1170 zerso® (A.D. 258-9) (=III. p. 194) λόγος ἐργατῶν ἀργησάντων, 76. 1173}0 (A.D. 125) (=III. p. 208) αΛ΄ For apy in P Lond 131 vecfo# (a.D. 78-9) (=I. p. 171) the editor conjectures ἀργίζει, or some other variant of ἀργεῖ, in the sense of ‘‘taking holiday”: cf. Mayser, Gy. p. 84. The absence of the suggestion implied in our ‘‘idle” is well seen in P Oxy VIII. 11601 (iii/iv A.D.) διμήνου δὲ ἤργηκα ὧδη, εἰ μή, ἤμελλα ὑμῖν mae (2.ε. πᾶσι) ἄλλα πέμπιν, where there is no thought of apology for the two months. The word may be used of inanimate things, as of ships in P Petr II. 208-1 (B.C. 252) ὅπως . . - μὴ ἀργῆι τὰ πλοῖα, and of a garden in P Flor II. 2628 (iii/A.D.) ἐπὶ ὁ κῆπος ἀργεῖ : this is correlate with the use of the causative katapyet in Lk 137. In MGr the verb means ‘‘delay, come too late,” an easy development from the idea of ‘‘idling, dawdling” : this might indeed be taken as corroborative evidence for the connotation

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀργέω (argeō) — be idle. ἀργέω, future -ήσω: aorist ἤργησα[Refs 2nd c.AD+]: perfect ἤργηκα[Refs 3rd c.AD+]: (ἀργός, ἀεργός):—to be unemployed, do nothing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; keep Sabbath, [LXX+1st c.AD+]; οἱ ἀργοῦντες the idle, [Refs]; γῆ ἀργοῦσα lying fallow, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀργῆσαν ἤμυσε στέγος[Refs 5th c.BC+]is out of work, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the senses, to be at rest, νυκτὸς τῆς ὄψεως ἀργούσης[Refs 4th c.BC+]: with genitive _of things_, ἀργήσει.. τῆς αὑτοῦ δημιουργίας will be unoccupied in his own work, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. passive, to be left undone, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be fruitless, ἡ σκέψις ἂν ἀργοῖτο[Refs]