Strong's G4691 · Greek

σπερμολόγος

spermologos · sper-mol-og'-os

from 4690 and 3004; a seed-picker (as the crow), i.e. (figuratively) a sponger, loafer (specially, a gossip or trifler in talk)

Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

σπερμολόγος (G4691)

1 * σπερμολόγος , -ον ( σπέρμα , λέγω ) a seed picker ; prop., of birds (Arist., Aristoph, al.); in Attic slang, of an idler who lives on scraps picked up in the agora; hence, as subst., ὁ σ. , an idle babbler : Ac 17:18 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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