περιεργ-άζομαι,
fut. - εργάσομαι, (περίεργος )
take more pains than enough about a thing, waste one’s labour on it, c. part., περιεργάζοντο δοκέοντες πρῶτοι ἀνθρώπων γεγονέναι Hdt. 2.15; Σωκράτης π. ζητῶν τά τε ὑπὸ γῆς καὶ οὐράνια Pl. Revelation 19 b; περιείργασμαι μὲν ἐγὼ περὶ τούτων εἰπὼν περιείργασται δ’ ἡ πόλις ἡ πεισθεῖσ’ ἐμοί D. 18.72: c. dat. modi, τῷ θυλάκῳ περιερλάσθαι that they had overdone it with their ’sack’ (i.e. need not have used the word), Hdt. 3.46; π. τοῖς σημείοις overact one’s part, Arist. Po. 1462a6; π. τῷ οἰκιδίῳ go to a needless expense with his house, Ael. VH 4.11; οὐδὲ περιείργασται ἐν αὐτοῖς nor has he lavished useless pains upon . ., Luc. Herod. 6 (but pf. in pass. sense, πλέον οὐδὲν περιείρλασται τῷ Θέωνι Ael. VH 2.44 ).
2. c. acc., π. τι καινόν to be busy about ’some new thing’, Ar. Ec. 220; αἱ μέλιτται π. τὸ παιδίον Philostr. Im. 2.12; meddle, interfere with, τὰ ἀλλότρια Chiloap. Stob. 3.1.172; τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν οὐδέν Plb. 18.51.2: abs., to be a busybody, D. 26.15, 32.28, Men. Epit. 358, Lib. Ep. 1068.3 .
3. bargain, haggle, περὶ τῆς τιμῆς PCair.Zen. 393.5 (iii B. C.) .
4. in good sense, elaborate, Men.Rh. p.394 S.,al.
5. investigate thoroughly, τὰ λεληθότα Jul. Or. 7.217c, cf. Eun. Hist. p.250 D.; seek diligently, π. πόθεν ἡ εἴσοδος Zos.Alch.p.111 B.
6. ταῦτα π . have this effect, of substances, Gal. 18(1).484.
G4020 — περιεργάζομαι
(see περί, III. 2); to bustle about uselessly, to busy oneself about trifling, needless, useless matters, (Sir. 3:23; Herodotus 3, 46; Plato, Apology, p. 19 b.; others): used apparently of a person officiously inquisitive about others' affairs (A. V. to be a busybody), [2Th 3:11], as in Demosthenes, p. 150, 24 (cf. p. 805, 4 etc.).
** περι - εργάζομαι ,
[in LXX : Wis 8:5 א 1, Sir 3:23 * ;]
1. to waste one's labour about a thing.
2. to be a busybody: [2Th 3:11] ( cf. Plat ., Apol., 19 B ). †