babbler
Spermologos is a dismissive label for a speaker whose message is treated as idle or incoherent talk.
The term is used as a dismissive description of a speaker whose words are treated as empty or incoherent in the response to his preaching in Acts 17:18.
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Dismissive label for a speaker · dominant
In Acts 17:18, the nominative singular masculine adjective is used in a question about what the speaker wishes to say, while the APB renders the question, “What would this babbler wish to say?” The surrounding response contrasts that dismissal with the claim that he proclaimed foreign deities because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Acts 17:18, the APB presents the term in the question “What would this babbler wish to say?” This rendering is taken as confirmation of the verse’s dismissive speech-context rather than a complete lexical definition.