G692 ἀργός
argós — inactive, i.e. unemployed; (by implication) lazy, useless
KJV: barren, idle, slow
Built from Α A (the first letter of the alphabet) + ἔργον érgon (toil)
Occurs 11 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- Matthew 12:36 — I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
- Matthew 20:3 — He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
- Matthew 20:6 — About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day…
- 1 Timothy 5:13 — Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies…
- Titus 1:12 — One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
- 2 Peter 1:8 — For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord…
- Wisdom of Solomon 14:5 — It is your will that the works of your wisdom should not be ineffective. Therefore men also entrust their lives to a…
- Wisdom of Solomon 15:15 — because they even considered all the idols of the nations to be gods, which have neither the use of eyes for seeing…
- Sirach 37:11 — Don’t consult with a woman about her rival, with a coward about war, with a merchant about business, with a buyer about…
- Sirach 38:28 — So too is the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the unwrought iron. The smoke of the fire will waste his…