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Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary Greek Lexicon 
Strong's #3150 - ματαιολογία
Transliteration 
mataiología
Phonetics
mat-ah-yol-og-ee'-ah
				
					
					
				
	
Origin
from (G3151)
Parts of Speech
feminine noun
TDNT
4:524,571
Definition   
		- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
Thayer's
			
			
		- vain talking, empty talk
Frequency Lists 
		- Book
- Word
- Parsing
Verse Results 
				
		ASV (1)
					
							1 Timothy
							1
						
					BSB (1)
					
							1 Timothy
							1
						
					CSB (1)
					
							1 Timothy
							1
						
					ESV (1)
					
							1 Timothy
							1
						
					KJV (1)
					
							1 Timothy
							1
						
					LEB (0)
					The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
					did not use
this Strong's Number
LSB (2)
					
							1 Timothy
							2
						
					N95 (2)
					
							1 Timothy
							2
						
					NAS (2)
					
							1 Timothy
							2
						
					NLT (1)
					
							1 Timothy
							1
						
					WEB (1)
					
							1 Timothy
							1
						
					YLT (1)
					
							1 Timothy
							1
						
					Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions
		μᾰταιο-λογία, ἡ,
idle talk, Diogenian.Epicur. 2.16, 1 Timothy 1:6, Plu. 2.6f, Vett.Val. 150.24 (pl.), al., Porph. Abst. 4.16.
Thayer's Expanded Definition
		ματαιολογία, ματαιολογιας, ἡ (ματαιολόγος), vain talking, empty talk (Vulg. vaniloquium): 1 Timothy 1:6. (Plutarch, mor., p. 6 f.; Porphyry, de abstin. 4, 16.)
Thayer's Expanded Greek Definition, Electronic Database.
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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament
		*† ματαιολογία , -ας , ἡ
(< ματαιολόγος ),
idle or foolish talk: 1 Timothy 1:6.†
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT
		ματαιολογία, ";vain speaking,"; ";empty argument"; (Vg vaniloquium), belongs to the higher Κοινή, and is found ter in Vett. Valens, e.g. p. 257.23 διὰ τὴν φιλονεικίαν διασαφήσω ἐκκόψας τὰς ματαιολογίας : cf. Poimandres 14.4 (ed. Parthey) διὸ τῆς πολυλογίας τε καὶ ματαιολογίας ἀπαλλαγέντας χρὴ νοεῖν κτλ.
The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
		Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
List of Word Forms
		ματαιολογιαν ματαιολογίαν mataiologian mataiologían