Strongs Number: G4691
- Greek Word
- σπερμολόγος
- Transliteration
- spermologos
- Phonetic
- sper-mol-og'-os
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Strongs Definition
-
a seed picker (as the crow) that is (figuratively) a sponger loafer (specifically a gossip or trifler in talk)
- Thayers Definition
-
1. picking up seed
a. of birds, esp. of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields
2. metaph.
a. lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise
b. hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)
c. getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery
d. an empty talker, babbler
- Origin
- From G4690 and G3004
- Bible Usage
- babbler.