Panourgia means “subtilty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3834 — labibah (“cake”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3834 πανουργία (panourgia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. panourgia (pan-ourg-ee'-ah) n. 1. adroitness 2. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry It has 13 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include craftiness, subtilty, and cunning. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
panourgia (pan-ourg-ee'-ah) n. 1. adroitness 2. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry [from G3835] KJV: (cunning) craftiness, subtilty Root(s): G3835
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3834. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
craftiness
Usage: πανουργία, -ας, ἡ (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.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render panourgia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3834 (πανουργία) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding place, The Assyrians shall carry thee away captive.
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
That he might give subtlety to the simple, And to the young man discernment and understanding.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
There is a wickedness, and the same an abomination; And there is a fool wanting in wisdom.
There is an exquisite subtlety, and the same is unjust; And there is one that turneth aside to make judgment appear.
He that is not wise will not be taught: But there is a wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3834.
And though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding place, The Assyrians shall carry thee away captive.
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
That he might give subtlety to the simple, And to the young man discernment and understanding.
O ye simple, understand subtlety, And ye that are untaught, imbibe knowledge.
But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
There is a wickedness, and the same an abomination; And there is a fool wanting in wisdom.
There is an exquisite subtlety, and the same is unjust; And there is one that turneth aside to make judgment appear.
He that is not wise will not be taught: But there is a wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.
Who hath been tried thereby, and found perfect? Then let him glory. Who might offend, and hath not offended? Or done evil, and hath not done it?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3834, grouped by book.
Panourgia (Strong's G3834) is a Greek word most simply glossed "subtilty". panourgia (pan-ourg-ee'-ah) n. 1. adroitness 2. (in a bad sense) trickery or sophistry
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G3834 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3834 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as craftiness, subtilty, and cunning. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3834, with linked reader references where each row is available.