3834. panourgia
Strong's Concordance
panourgia: cleverness, craftiness
Original Word: πανουργία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: panourgia
Phonetic Spelling: (pan-oorg-ee'-ah)
Short Definition: cunning, craftiness
Definition: shrewdness, skill; hence: cunning, craftiness.
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3834 panourgía (from 3956 /pás, "every" and 2041 /érgon, "deed") – properly, every (evil) work; (figuratively) crafty behavior; unscrupulous cunning that stops at nothing to achieve a selfish goal.

"The man who practices panourgia (-pan + ergon) is ready to do anything, up to every trick" (P. Hughs, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, 123).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3834: πανουργία

πανουργία, πανουργίας, (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.))

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
cunning, craftiness, subtilty.

From panougos; adroitness, i.e. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry -- (cunning) craftiness, subtilty.

see GREEK panougos

Forms and Transliterations
πανουργια πανουργία πανουργίᾳ πανουργιαν πανουργίαν πανουργίας panourgia panourgíāi panourgian panourgían
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5 Occurrences


πανουργίᾳ — 4 Occ.
πανουργίαν — 1 Occ.

Luke 20:23 N-AFS
GRK: αὐτῶν τὴν πανουργίαν εἶπεν πρὸς
NAS: But He detected their trickery and said
KJV: their craftiness, and said
INT: of them the craftiness he said to

1 Corinthians 3:19 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτῶν
NAS: THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS;
KJV: in their own craftiness.
INT: in the craftiness of them

2 Corinthians 4:2 N-DFS
GRK: περιπατοῦντες ἐν πανουργίᾳ μηδὲ δολοῦντες
NAS: not walking in craftiness or
KJV: walking in craftiness, nor handling
INT: walking in craftiness nor falsifying

2 Corinthians 11:3 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτοῦ φθαρῇ
NAS: Eve by his craftiness, your minds
KJV: through his subtilty, so your
INT: in the craftiness of him should be corrupted

Ephesians 4:14 N-DFS
GRK: ἀνθρώπων ἐν πανουργίᾳ πρὸς τὴν
NAS: of men, by craftiness in deceitful
INT: of men in craftiness with a view to the

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