panourgia · craftiness

What it means

panourgia (πανουργία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “craftiness”.

Cunning, trickery.

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. Trickery used to deceive.

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

How it is translated

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

• craftiness ×3
• cunning ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×2
• Ephesians×1

• Luke 20:23

  But perceiving their craftiness, he said to them,

• 1 Corinthians 3:19

  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: He catches the wise in their craftiness;

• 2 Corinthians 4:2

  But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in cunning nor falsifying the word of God, but by the open display of the truth commending ourselves to every person’s conscience before God.

• 2 Corinthians 11:3

  But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward the Messiah.

• Ephesians 4:14

  so that we may no longer be children, tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of men, by craftiness in the scheming of error;