Lexical Summary panourgia: cleverness, craftiness Original Word: πανουργίαTransliteration: panourgia Phonetic Spelling: (pan-oorg-ee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: cleverness, craftiness Meaning: cleverness, craftiness Strong's Concordance cunning, craftiness, subtilty. From panougos; adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry -- (cunning) craftiness, subtilty. see GREEK panougos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3834: πανουργίαπανουργία, 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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