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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #4123 - πλεονέκτης

Transliteration

pleonéktēs

Phonetics

pleh-on-ek'-tace

Origin

from (G4119) and (G2192)

Parts of Speech

Noun Masculine

TDNT

6:266,864

Definition

Thayer's

one eager to have more, esp. what belongs to others
greedy of gain, covetous

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (4)

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

NAS (5)

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

HCS (4)

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

BSB (4)

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

ESV (4)

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

WEB (4)

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

Verse Results

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.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** πλεονέκτης , -ον , ὁ

(< 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.

List of Word Forms

πλεονεκται πλεονέκται πλεονεκταις πλεονέκταις πλεονεκτης πλεονέκτης pleonektai pleonéktai pleonektais pleonéktais pleonektes pleonektēs pleonéktes pleonéktēs

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