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Lexicon :: Strong's G4124 - pleonexia

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πλεονεξία
Transliteration
pleonexia (Key)
Pronunciation
pleh-on-ex-ee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:266,864

Trench's Synonyms: xxiv. πλεονεξία, φιλαργυρία.

Strong’s Definitions

πλεονεξία pleonexía, pleh-on-ex-ee'-ah; from G4123; avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion:—covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G4124 in the following manner: covetousness (8x), greediness (1x), covetous practice (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G4124 in the following manner: covetousness (8x), greediness (1x), covetous practice (1x).

  1. greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πλεονεξία pleonexía, pleh-on-ex-ee'-ah; from G4123; avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion:—covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.
STRONGS G4124:
πλεονεξία, 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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Mark
7:22
Luke
12:15
Romans
1:29
2 Corinthians
9:5
Ephesians
4:19; 5:3
Colossians
3:5; 3:5
1 Thessalonians
2:5
2 Peter
2:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4124 matches the Greek πλεονεξία (pleonexia),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:22 - thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:15 - And he said unto them, 'Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:29 - having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:5 - Necessary, therefore, I thought it to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:19 - who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:3 - and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:5 - for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:3 - and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:14 - having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,
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