Lexical Summary gynaikarion: a little woman, (contemptuously) a silly woman Original Word: γυναικάριονTransliteration: gynaikarion Phonetic Spelling: (goo-nahee-kar'-ee-on) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a little woman, (contemptuously) a silly woman Meaning: a little woman, (contemptuously) a silly woman Strong's Concordance idle or foolish woman. A diminutive from gune; a little (i.e. Foolish) woman -- silly woman. see GREEK gune Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1133: γυναικάριονγυναικάριον, γυναικαριου, τό (diminutive from γυνή), a little woman; used contemptuously in 2 Timothy 3:6 (A. V. silly women; cf. Latinmuliercula). (Diocles. com. in Bekker Anecd., p. 87, 4; Antoninus 5, 11; occasionally in Epictetus) On diminutive ending in ἀριον see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 180; Fritzsche on Mark, p. 638; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 24, 96 (91)). |