Definition

random talk, i.e. babble

Etymology

from G3151 (ματαιολόγος);

Word family

• ματαιολόγος mataiológos

How the KJV renders it

• vain jangling

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.