3835. panourgos
Strong's Concordance
panourgos: ready to do anything, crafty, skillful
Original Word: πανοῦργος, ον
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: panourgos
Phonetic Spelling: (pan-oor'-gos)
Short Definition: cunning, crafty
Definition: cunning, crafty, skilful, clever.
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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: πανοῦργος

πανοῦργος, 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); , etc.): 2 Corinthians 12:16.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
crafty.

From pas and ergon; all-working, i.e. Adroit (shrewd) -- crafty.

see GREEK pas

see GREEK ergon

Forms and Transliterations
πανούργοι πανουργος πανούργος πανοῦργος πανουργότερος πανούργων πανταχή panourgos panoûrgos
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Strong's Greek 3835
1 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

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