4691 - spermologos

Strong's Concordance

Original word: σπερμολόγος
Transliteration: spermologos
Definition (short): babbler
Definition (full): a seed picker, one who picks up scraps of knowledge

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from sperma and legó (to pick out, same verb as legó but with a different mean.)
Definition: a seed picker, fig. one who picks up scraps of knowledge
NASB Translation: idle babbler (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From sperma and lego; a seed-picker (as the crow), i.e. (figuratively) a sponger, loafer (specially, a gossip or trifler in talk) -- babbler.

see GREEK sperma

see GREEK lego

KJV: Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
NASB: And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"-- because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.