Rapacious
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Rapacious (3 Occurrences)

Luke 18:11 The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer. (DBY YLT)

1 Corinthians 5:10 not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world. (DBY)

1 Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (DBY)

Thesaurus
Rapacious (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence;
as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. ...
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Rapacity (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness;
ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. ...
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Vulture (16 Occurrences)
... (n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes,
Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae. Int. ...
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Kite (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious. 3. (n.) A light frame of wood or other material
covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string. ...
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Wolf (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially,
want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door. ...
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Thick (129 Occurrences)
... Thick clay. (Habakkuk 2:6) is correctly rendered in the Revised Version "pledges."
The Chaldean power is here represented as a rapacious usurer, accumulating ...
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Tablets (31 Occurrences)
... contest between representatives of various museums on the one hand, eager for
scientific material, and native dealers, on the other hand, rapacious at the ...
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Tell (3056 Occurrences)
... contest between representatives of various museums on the one hand, eager for
scientific material, and native dealers, on the other hand, rapacious at the ...
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Ravening (6 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Raven. 2. (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. 3. (a.)
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Ransoms (1 Occurrence)

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Greek
727. harpax -- rapacious
... rapacious. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: harpax Phonetic Spelling:
(har'-pax) Short Definition: rapacious, ravenous, a robber, an extortioner ...
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2719. katesthio -- to eat up
... intensifying 2068 , "eat") -- properly, eat all the way ; (figuratively) devour,
leaving nothing; consume all the way , ie with a rapacious, voracious appetite ...
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4123. pleonektes -- one desirous of having more
... Cognate: 4123 (a masculine noun derived from 4122 , "to covet") -- used of "a greedy, ,
rapacious, person; a defrauder, trampling on the rights of others ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (a.) Given to plunder; disposed to seize by violence; seizing by force.

2. (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.

3. (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.

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