Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S
Open Bibleπερίεργος
G4021 · períergos · per-ee'-er-gos · Greek
Strong’s definition
working all around, i.e. officious (meddlesome, neuter plural magic)
KJV usage
:--busybody, curious arts.
2mapped occurrences
2verses
2KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping
arts 1busybodies 1
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Mapped occurrences
Acts 19:19Mapped KJV word: arts
1 Timothy 5:13Mapped KJV word: busybodies
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.