Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. 2. (n.) A hound too noisy on finding a good scent. 3. (n.) A name given to any one of family (Timalinae) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia BABBLER bab'-ler ba`al ha-lashon; the King James Version of Ecclesiastes 10:11 literally, "master of the tongue"; the Revised Version (British and American) CHARMER; lapistes, the King James Version of Ecclesiasticus 20:7; the Revised Version (British and American) BRAG; spermologos; the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) of Acts 17:18: The latter Greek word is used of birds, such as the crow, that live by picking up small seeds (sperma, "20 seed," legein, "to gather"), and of men, for "hangers on" and "parasites" who obtained their living by picking up odds and ends off merchants' carts in harbors and markets. It carries the "suggestion of picking up refuse and scraps, and in the literature of plagiarism without the capacity to use correctly" (Ramsay). The Athenian philosophers in calling Paul a spermologos, or "ignorant plagiarist," meant that he retailed odds and ends of knowledge which he had picked up from others, without possessing himself any system of thought or skill of language-without culture. In fact it was a fairly correct description of the Athenian philosophers themselves in Paul's day. Ramsay, Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen, 141. T. Rees

Multi-Version Concordance Babbler (4 Occurrences) Acts 17:18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. (WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV) Ecclesiastes 10:11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. (KJV WBS) Isaiah 22:18 And thy coverer covering, wrapping round, Wrappeth thee round, O babbler, On a land broad of sides -- there thou diest, And there the chariots of thine honour 'Are' the shame of the house of thy lord. (YLT) Isaiah 29:3 And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee -- a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks. (YLT)