Lexicon pleonexia: advantage, covetousness Original Word: πλεονεξία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: pleonexia Phonetic Spelling: (pleh-on-ex-ee'-ah) Short Definition: covetousness, avarice Definition: covetousness, avarice, aggression, desire for advantage. HELPS word-Studies 4124 pleoneksía (a feminine noun derived from 4119 /pleíōn, "numerically more" and 2192 /éxō, "have") – properly, the desire for more (things), i.e. lusting for a greater number of temporal things that go beyond what God determines is eternally best (beyond His preferred-will, cf. 2307 /thélēma); covetousness (coveting). 4124 /pleoneksía (a feminine noun) points to a brand of covetousness, defined by the context. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom pleonektésDefinitionadvantage, covetousness NASB Translationcovetousness (1), deeds of coveting (1), greed (7), greediness (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4124: πλεονεξίαπλεονεξία, πλεονεξίας, ἡ ( πλεονέκτης, which see), greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice: Luke 12:15; Romans 1:29; Ephesians 4:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; 2 Peter 2:3 (on the omission of the article in the last two passages, cf. Winer's Grammar, 120 (114)), 14; ὡς ( Rec. ὥσπερ) πλεονεξίαν (as a matter of covetousness), i. e. a gift which betrays the giver's covetousness, 2 Corinthians 9:5 (here R. V. text extortion); plural various modes in which covetousness shows itself, covetings (cf. Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, 77 (67)), Mark 7:22. (In the same and various other senses by secular writings from Herodotus and Thucydides down.) ( Trench, N. T. Synonyms, § xxiv., and (in partial correction) Lightfoot's Commentary on Colossians 3:5.)
Strong's covetousness, greediness. From pleonektes; avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion -- covetous(-ness) practices, greediness. see GREEK pleonektes |
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