Kata Biblon Wiki Lexicon - κέρκωψ

	Match	Lemma	Uncontracted Form(s)	Parsing
	κερκωπων	κέρκωψ	κερκωπ·ων	(mas) gen pl

κέρκωψ, -ωπος, ὁ [LXX]

Noun (Mas. 3rd Decl.)

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Kerkopes: http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Kerkopes.html

κέρκος, tail: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=ke/rkos
κέρκωσις, growth of a tail: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=ke/rkwsis
κερκώπη, long-tailed: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=kerkw/ph
κερκωπία, trickiness: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=kerkwpi/a
κερκωπίζω, play the ape: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=kerkwpi/zw
κερκο·πίθηκος, long-tailed ape: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=kerkopi/qhkos
πιθήκειος, of an ape, ape-like: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=pi^qh/keios
πιθηκίζω, play the ape: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=pi^qhki/zw
πιθηκισμός, playing the ape, playing monkey-tricks: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=pi^qhkismo/s
πίθηκος, ape, monkey: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=pi/qhkos

To play the ape: to play practical jokes; to play silly tricks; to make facial imitations, like an ape (http://bartleby.com/81/793.html).

[c. AD 360 – c. 435] The Conferences of John Cassian >> Conference XVI. The First Conference of Abbot Joseph. On Friendship.
Chapter XVIII. Of those who pretend to patience but excite their brethren to anger by their silence.
..."often a feigned patience excites to anger more keenly than words, and a spiteful silence exceeds the most awful insults in words, and the wounds of enemies are more easily borne than the deceitful blandishment of mockers (quam irridentium subdola blandimenta), of which it is well said by the prophet: 'Their words are smoother than oil, and yet they are darts:' and elsewhere 'the words of the crafty [κερκώπων/callidorum] are soft: but they smite within the belly:' to which this also may be finely applied: 'With the mouth he speaks peace to his friend, but secretly he layeth snares for him;' ”

κερκώπων in Syriac= ܛܪܟ/טרך/ταραχ, a.k.a. "disturbers" & "murmurers, revilers, irritators, instigators."
"ανηρ λοιδορος [ܛܪܟ] εις ταραχην μαχης"..."ος ερεθιζει [ܛܪܟ] λογους...ποιει ακαταστασιας."
Men causing faction & strife [Jam. 3:16]
ܛܪܟ= κερκώπων, ἐρεθίζει, λοίδορος, ἄστεγον

	Inflection	Lemma	Uncontracted Form(s)	Parsing	Translation(s)	Verse(s)
	κερκώπων	κέρκωψ	κερκωπ·ων	(mas) gen pl	jokesters (gen)	Prv 26:22

κέρκος, -ου, ἡ [LXX]	tail (n.)
κέρκωψ, -ωπος, ὁ [LXX]	jokester (n.) [monkey-man];