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2 Timothy 2

2 Tim. 2:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
foolish
moros (Greek #3474)
dull or stupid (as if shut up), i.e. heedless, (morally) blockhead, (apparently) absurd
KJV usage: fool(-ish, X -ishness).
Pronounce: mo-ros'
Origin: probably from the base of 3466
and
kai (Greek #2532)
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
KJV usage: and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Pronounce: kahee
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
unlearned
apaideutos (Greek #521)
uninstructed, i.e. (figuratively) stupid
KJV usage: unlearned.
Pronounce: ap-ah'-ee-dyoo-tos
Origin: from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 3811
questions
zetesis (Greek #2214)
a searching (properly, the act), i.e. a dispute or its theme
KJV usage: question.
Pronounce: dzay'-tay-sis
Origin: from 2212
c avoid
paraiteomai (Greek #3868)
to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun
KJV usage: avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.
Pronounce: par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee
Origin: from 3844 and the middle voice of 154
, knowing
eido (Greek #1492)
used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent 3700 and 3708; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know
KJV usage: be aware, behold, X can (+ not tell), consider, (have) know(-ledge), look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wish, wot. Compare 3700.
Pronounce: i'-do
Origin: a primary verb
that
hoti (Greek #3754)
demonstrative, that (sometimes redundant); causative, because
KJV usage: as concerning that, as though, because (that), for (that), how (that), (in) that, though, why.
Pronounce: hot'-ee
Origin: neuter of 3748 as conjunction
they do gender
gennao (Greek #1080)
to procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively, to regenerate
KJV usage: bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.
Pronounce: ghen-nah'-o
Origin: from a variation of 1085
strifes
mache (Greek #3163)
a battle, i.e. (figuratively) controversy
KJV usage: fighting, strive, striving.
Pronounce: makh'-ay
Origin: from 3164
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2 Tim. 2:16• 16But shun profane babblings, for they will advance unto greater ungodliness, (2 Tim. 2:16)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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2 Tim. 2:14,16• 14Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord that they fight not about words, to no profit, for subversion of those that hear.
 16But shun profane babblings, for they will advance unto greater ungodliness, (2 Tim. 2:14,16)
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1 Tim. 1:4• 4nor to pay heed to fables and endless genealogies, such as furnish questionings rather than God's dispensation that is in faith. (1 Tim. 1:4)
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1 Tim. 4:7• 7But the profane and old-womanish fables refuse, and exercise thyself unto piety; (1 Tim. 4:7)
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1 Tim. 6:4‑5• 4he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questionings and word-disputes, out of which cometh envy, strife, revilings, evil suspicions,
 5wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that piety is gain. (1 Tim. 6:4‑5)
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Titus 3:9• 9but foolish questionings and genealogies and strifes and legal fightings shun, for they are unprofitable and vain. (Titus 3:9)
• It is, literally, foolish and "undisciplined" questions; and it has been pointed out by another that the word "undisciplined" is often used for a "mind not subject to God, a man following his own mind and will." This will explain the kind of questioning referred to—those which spring from man's own thoughts and reasonings, and which therefore could not fail to produce strifes. (article #86511)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But foolish and senselessd questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "foolish and undisciplined questionings"; in general a mind not subject to God, a man following his own mind and will.

W. Kelly Translation

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But foolisha and ignorant questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.

WK Translation Notes

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The article "the" is here apparent in the MSS., though it cannot well stand in an idiomatic English version. "The foolish" supposes the well-known custom of those alluded to, fruit of their will and self-confidence.