argos · idle, useless

What it means

argos (ἀργός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “idle, useless”.

Idle, without work; useless, careless, good for nothing.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Doing nothing; fruitless; a thoughtless word.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• idle ×4
• barren ×2
• careless ×1
• lazy ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• 1 Timothy×2
• Titus×1
• James×1
• 2 Peter×1

• Matthew 12:36

  And I tell you that for every careless word that people speak, they will give an account of it on the day of judgment;

• Matthew 20:3

  And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

• Matthew 20:6

  And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing there, and he says to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all the day idle?’

• 1 Timothy 5:13

  And at the same time they also learn to be idle, going around from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

• Titus 1:12

  One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

• James 2:20

  But do you want to know, O empty man, that faith apart from works is barren?

• 2 Peter 1:8

  For if these things are yours and are increasing, they make you neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

And 1 more times.