Strong's Concordance panourgia: cleverness, craftiness Original Word: πανουργία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: panourgia Phonetic Spelling: (pan-oorg-ee'-ah) Short Definition: cunning, craftiness Definition: shrewdness, skill; hence: cunning, craftiness. HELPS Word-studies 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: 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.)) 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 panourgíanLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 38345 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 2 Corinthians 4:2 N-DFS 2 Corinthians 11:3 N-DFS Ephesians 4:14 N-DFS |