Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
idly, i.e. without reason (or effect)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
without plan or system; without cause, rashly, Col. 2:18; to no purpose, in vain, Rom. 13:4; 1 Cor. 15:2; Gal. 3:4 (2x); 4:11*
Translated in KJV as
without a cause(in) vain(-ly)
Etymology
probably from G1502 (εἴκω) (through the idea of failure);
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