Lexicon pleonekteó: to have more, to overreach Original Word: πλεονεκτέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pleonekteó Phonetic Spelling: (pleh-on-cek-teh'-o) Short Definition: I take advantage of Definition: I take advantage of, overreach, defraud. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 4122 pleonektéō (from 4119 /pleíōn, "more" and 2192/exō, "have") – properly, "(the desire) to have more," i.e. acquire more (a greater number of) things; to covet (improper) gain. 4122 /pleonektéō ("covet, defraud") shows inordinate desire, especially lusting for what belongs to someone else. See 4124 (pleoneksia). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom pleonektésDefinitionto have more, to overreach NASB Translationadvantage would be taken of (1), defraud (1), take any advantage (1), taken advantage (1), took advantage (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4122: πλεονεκτέωπλεονεκτέω, πλεονέκτω; 1 aorist ἐπλεονέκτησα; 1 aorist passive subjunctive 1 person plural πλεονεκτηθῶμεν; ( πλεονέκτης); 1. intransitive, to have more, or a greater part or share: Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, others; to be superior, excel, surpass, have an advantage over, τίνος (genitive of person) τίνι (the dative of thing): Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, others. 2. transitive, to gain or take advantage of another, to overreach: (Herodotus 8, 112), Plato, Diodorus, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Dio Cassius, others; and so in the N. T. in 2 Corinthians 7:2; 2 Corinthians 12:17, 18; 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (see πρᾶγμα, b.); passive (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 22) ὑπό τίνος, 2 Corinthians 2:11(10).
Strong's take advantage, defraud, make a gain. From pleonektes; to be covetous, i.e. (by implication) to over-reach -- get an advantage, defraud, make a gain. see GREEK pleonektes |
