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Strong's #3834 - πανουργία
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- craftiness, cunning
- a specious or false wisdom
- in a good sense, prudence, skill, in undertaking and carrying on affairs
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πᾰνουργ-ία, ἡ,
1. knavery, A. Th. 603, S. Ph. 927, Lys. 22.16, Pl. Lg. 747c, Arist. EN 1144a27: in pl., villainies, S. Ant. 300, Ar. Eq. 684, etc.
2. of animals, Arist. HA 588a23 (pl.), 614a30.
3. adulteration of drugs or honey, Gal. 14.27.
πανουργία, πανουργίας, ἡ (πανοῦργος, which see), craftiness, cunning: Luke 20:23; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 4:14; contextually equivalent to a specious or false wisdom, 1 Corinthians 3:19. (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Lucian, Aelian, others; πᾶσα τέ ἐπιστήμη χωριζομενη δικαιοσύνης καί τῆς ἄλλης ἀρετῆς πανουργία οὐ σοφία φαίνεται, Plato, Menex., p. 247 a. for עָרְמָה in a good sense, prudence, skill, in undertaking and carrying on affairs, Proverbs 1:4; Proverbs 8:5; Sir. 31:10 (Sir. 34:11.))
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πανουργία , -ας , ἡ
(< πανοῦργος ),
[in LXX: Joshua 9:4, Proverbs 1:4; Proverbs 8:5 (H6195), Numbers 24:22, Sirach 19:25; Sirach 21:22; Sirach 31:10 (Sirach 34:10) (in all cases in good or indifferent sense)*;]
cleverness, in cl. nearly always in bad sense, craftiness, cunning, knavery: Luke 20:23, 1 Corinthians 3:19 (LXX, φρόνησις , for H6195) 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 4:14.†
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