King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G5397
Transliteration: phlyaros
Phonetic Spelling: (floo'-ar-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: babbling
Meaning: babbling
φλύαρος, φλυαρον (φλύω, 'to boil up,' 'throw up bubbles', of water; and since bubbles are hollow and useless things, 'to indulge in empty and foolish talk'); of persons, uttering or doing silly things, garrulous, babbling (A. V. tattlers): 1 Timothy 5:13 (Dionysius Halicarnassus, de comp. verb. 26, vol. 5:215, 3; others); of things, foolish, trifling, vain: φιλοσοφία, 4 Macc. 5:10. (Plato, Josephus, Vita §31; often in Plutarch; Aeschylus dial. Socrates 3, 13; others.)
Word Summary
phlyaros: babbling
Original Word: φλύαροςTransliteration: phlyaros
Phonetic Spelling: (floo'-ar-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: babbling
Meaning: babbling
Strong's Concordance
tattler. From phluo (to bubble); a garrulous person, i.e. Prater -- tattler.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5397: φλύαροςφλύαρος, φλυαρον (φλύω, 'to boil up,' 'throw up bubbles', of water; and since bubbles are hollow and useless things, 'to indulge in empty and foolish talk'); of persons, uttering or doing silly things, garrulous, babbling (A. V. tattlers): 1 Timothy 5:13 (Dionysius Halicarnassus, de comp. verb. 26, vol. 5:215, 3; others); of things, foolish, trifling, vain: φιλοσοφία, 4 Macc. 5:10. (Plato, Josephus, Vita §31; often in Plutarch; Aeschylus dial. Socrates 3, 13; others.)