Strong's Concordance panourgos: ready to do anything, crafty, skillful Original Word: πανοῦργος, ονPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: panourgos Phonetic Spelling: (pan-oor'-gos) Short Definition: cunning, crafty Definition: cunning, crafty, skilful, clever. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 3835 panoúrgos – properly, a person doing anything to get their way ("anything it takes"). 3935 /paríēmi ("crafty-fellow") is used only in 2 Cor 12:16 where it describes a scoundrel (an unscrupulous person) who will do any evil to "succeed." See 3834 (panourgia). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3835: πανοῦργοςπανοῦργος, πανοῦργον (πᾶς and ἘΠΤΩ equivalent to ἐργάζομαι; on the accent, see κακοῦργος), the Sept. for עָרוּם; skillful, clever, i. e.: 1. in a good sense, fit to undertake and accomplish anything, dexterous; wise, sagacious, skillful (Aristotle, Polybius, Plutarch, others; the Sept. Proverbs 13:1; Proverbs 28:2). But far more frequent. 2. in a bad sense, crafty, cunning, knavish, treacherous, deceitful, (Tragg., Aristophanes, Plato, Plutarch, others; the Sept.; Sir. 6:32 (31) (but here in a good sense); From pas and ergon; all-working, i.e. Adroit (shrewd) -- crafty. see GREEK pas see GREEK ergon Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 38351 Occurrence πανοῦργος — 1 Occ. 2 Corinthians 12:16 N-NMS GRK: ἀλλὰ ὑπάρχων πανοῦργος δόλῳ ὑμᾶς NAS: nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I took KJV: being crafty, I caught INT: but being crafty with trickery you |