Lexicon pleonektés: one desirous of having more Original Word: πλεονέκτης, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: pleonektés Phonetic Spelling: (pleh-on-ek'-tace) Short Definition: a covetous person Definition: a covetous or avaricious person; one desirous of having more. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 4123 pleonéktēs (a masculine noun derived from 4122 /pleonektéō, "to covet") – used of "a greedy, covetous, rapacious, person; a defrauder, trampling on the rights of others" (Souter). See 4124 (pleoneksia). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the cptv. of polus and echóDefinitionone desirous of having more NASB Translationcovetous (3), covetous man (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4123: πλεονέκτηςπλεονέκτης, πλεονέκτου, ὁ ( πλέον and ἔχω); 1. one eager to have more, especially what belongs to others ((Thucydides 1, 40, 1 (cf. Herodotus 7, 158)); Xenophon, mem. 1, 5, 3); 2. greedy of gain, covetous: 1 Corinthians 5:10, 11; 1 Corinthians 6:10; Ephesians 5:5; Sir. 14:9.
Strong's covetous. From pleion and echo; holding (desiring) more, i.e. Eager for gain (avaricious, hence a defrauder) -- covetous. see GREEK pleion see GREEK echo |
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