Bible Dictionaries

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

Talking

1: ματαιολογία
(Strong's #3150 — Noun Feminine — mataiologia — mat-ah-yol-og-ee'-ah )

a noun corresponding to the above, is used in 1 Timothy 1:6 , RV, "vain talking" (AV, "vain jangling").

2: μωρολογία
(Strong's #3473 — Noun Feminine — morologia — mo-rol-og-ee'-ah )

from moros, "foolish, dull, stupid," and lego, is used in Ephesians 5:4; it denotes more than mere idle "talk." Trench describes it as "that 'talk of fools' which is foolishness and sin together" (Syn. xxxiv).