Words the Bible translates as babble
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- badבַּדbig empty talk: boasting or babble with nothing behind it, and in the plural the boasters and fortune tellers who trade in it
- battologeōβαττολογέωto babble on in prayer: to pile up empty, thoughtless words as if sheer quantity of speech could pressure God into listening
- mataiologiaματαιολογίαempty talk: religious teaching that has the outward form of doctrine but no truth behind it and no godliness to show for it
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