What does πανουργία (panourgía) mean in the Bible?
πανουργία (panourgía) is a Greek word meaning "craftiness".
Greek · G3834
πανουργία
Craftiness
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πανουργία G3834
Pronunciation panourgía
What does πανουργία (panourgía) mean in the Bible?
πανουργία (panourgía) is a Greek word meaning "craftiness".
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3834?
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include clever (1), craftiness (1), cunning (1), deceit (1), duplicity (1).
Where does πανουργία (panourgía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 20:23. Its strongest book concentrations include 2 Corinthians (2), 1 Corinthians (1), Ephesians (1), Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It clever 1× Ephesians 4:14
craftiness 1× 1 Corinthians 3:19
cunning 1× 2 Corinthians 11:3
deceit 1× 2 Corinthians 4:2
duplicity 1× Luke 20:23
Show sample aligned rows
Luke 20:23 πανουργίαν to duplicity Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1 Corinthians 3:19 πανουργίᾳ to craftiness Noun - Dative Feminine Singular 2 Corinthians 4:2 πανουργίᾳ to deceit Noun - Dative Feminine Singular 2 Corinthians 11:3 πανουργίᾳ to cunning Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Ephesians 4:14 πανουργίᾳ to clever Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Luke 20:23
Aligned rows 5
Books represented 4
Luke 1 1 Corinthians 1 2 Corinthians 2 Ephesians 1
Source forms
πανουργίᾳ 4x panourgia 1 Corinthians 3:19, 2 Corinthians 4:2, 2 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 4:14
πανουργίαν 1x panourgian Luke 20:23
Parsing patterns
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular 4x 1 Corinthians 3:19, 2 Corinthians 4:2, 2 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 4:14
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Luke 20:23
Evidence Summary
Greek word. craftiness
Strong's G3834
Lexical occurrences 5 verses Greek text appearances 5 times Word forms 2 forms 5 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
craftiness
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
(πανοῦργος), [in LXX: Jos.9:4, Pro.1:4 8:5 (עׇרְמָה), Num.24:22, Sir.19:25 21:22 31:10 (Sir.34:10) (in all cases in good or indifferent sense)* ;] cleverness, in cl. nearly always in bad sense, craftiness, cunning, knavery: Luk.20:23, 1Co.3:19 (LXX, φρόνησις, for עׇרְמָה) 2Co.4:2 11:3, Eph.4:14.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
5 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 20:23 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
πανουργίαν, panourgian
cunning, craftiness
Read verse 1 Corinthians 3:19 Noun Dative Singular Feminine
πανουργίᾳ panourgia
cunning, craftiness
Read verse 2 Corinthians 4:2 Noun Dative Singular Feminine
πανουργίᾳ panourgia
cunning, craftiness
Read verse 2 Corinthians 11:3 Noun Dative Singular Feminine
πανουργίᾳ panourgia
cunning, craftiness
Read verse Ephesians 4:14 Noun Dative Singular Feminine
πανουργίᾳ, panourgia
cunning, craftiness
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 5 Case pattern Dative (4) Number pattern Singular (5)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Dative · Singular · Feminine 1 Cor 3:19 · 2 Cor 4:2 · 2 Cor 11:3 · Eph 4:14 4×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Luke 20:23 1×
Word Origins
πανουργία is built from this root:
Part of These Phrases
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain