βαττολογέω (T WH βατταλογέω (with ΰ B, see WH's Appendix, p. 152)), βαττολόγω: 1 aorist subjunctive 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 Mat_6:7, where it is explained by ἐν τῇ πολυλογία, (Vulg.multumloqui; (A. V. to use vain repetitions)); cf. Tholuck at the passage Some suppose the word to be derived from Battus, a king of Cyrene, who is said to have stuttered (Herodotus 4, 155); others from Battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems; but comparing βατταρίζειν, which has the same meaning, and βάρβαρος (which see), it seems fax more probable that the word is onomatopoetic. (Simplicius, in Epictetus (ench. 30 at the end), p. 340, Schweigh edition.)

βατταλογέω battalogeō 1x also spelled βαττολογέω , pr. to stammer; hence, to babble; to use vain repetitions, Mat_6:7

*† βατταλογέω , -ῶ ( Rec. βαττολ -, D, βλαττ - = βατταρίζω , prob. onomatop.; v. MM , s v; DCG , ii, 499b, 790 a); to stammer, repeat idly: Mat_6:7 ( Cremer , 765).†

βαττολογέω [page 107] In D this word is βλαττολογέω , the form of which suggests an approximation towards the Latin blatero [query cf. provincial English blether , with same meaning, both starting from * mlatero ]. The Latin text ( d ) 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 battβl ( leer, nichtig, says Wellhausen on Mat_6:7 ) 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 improbable stammering connexion, and will suit the ἐν τη πολυλογίᾳ by which the verb is explained in Mat_6:7 . (See Holden on Plutarch s Demosthenes , ch. iv.)

βαττολογέω [Etym: From Βάττος] [Etym: λόγος] "to speak stammeringly, say the same thing over and over again", NTest.

βατταλογέω, -ῶ (Rec. βαττολ-, D, βλαττ- = βατταρίζω, prob. onomatop.; see MM, see word; DCG, ii, 499b, 790a); to stammer, repeat idly: Mat.6:7 (Cremer, 765).† (AS)