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Strong's #4123 - πλεονέκτης

Transliteration
pleonéktēs
Phonetics
pleh-on-ek'-tace
Origin
from (G4119) and (G2192)
Parts of Speech
masculine noun
TDNT
6:266,864
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. one eager to have more, esp. what belongs to others
  2. greedy of gain, covetous
Frequency Lists
Verse Results
ASV (4)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 1
BSB (4)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 1
CSB (4)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 1
ESV (4)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 1
KJV (4)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 1
LEB (0)
The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
LSB (4)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 1
N95 (5)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 2
NAS (6)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 2
NLT (5)
1 Corinthians 4
Ephesians 1
WEB (4)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 1
YLT (4)
1 Corinthians 3
Ephesians 1
Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

πλεονέκτ-ης, ου, ὁ,

= ὁ πλέον ἔχων, one who has or claims more than his due, greedy, grasping, Th. 1.40, etc.: as Adj. λόγος π. a greedy, arrogant speech, Hdt. 7.158: Sup. πλεονεκτίστατος X. Mem. 1.2.12 .

2. ἐν παντὶ πλεονέκτην τῶν πολεμίων making gain from their losses, Id. Cyr. 1.6.27 .

3. metaph. in Math., of τὸ ὑπερτελές, Iamb. in Nic. p.32 P.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

πλεονέκτης, πλεονέκτου, (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.


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** πλεονέκτης , -ον ,

(< πλέον , ἔχω ),

[in LXX: Sirach 14:9*;]

= ὁ θέλων πλέον ἔχειν (v. MM, xx),

one desirous of having more, covetous: 1 Corinthians 5:10-11; 1 Corinthians 6:10 Ephesians 5:5.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

";Puteoli"; : for the form of the name cf. Robertson Gr. p. 189, and see the citations in Wetstein ad Acts 28:13.

 


The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
List of Word Forms
πλεονεκται πλεονέκται πλεονεκταις πλεονέκταις πλεονεκτης πλεονέκτης pleonektai pleonéktai pleonektais pleonéktais pleonektes pleonektēs pleonéktes pleonéktēs
 
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