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Lexicon :: Strong's G4139 - plēsion

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πλησίον
Transliteration
plēsion (Key)
Pronunciation
play-see'-on
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
Neuter of a derivative of pelas (near)
mGNT
17x in 1 unique form(s) TR
17x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
161x in 1 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:311,872

Strong’s Definitions

πλησίον plēsíon, play-see'-on; neuter of a derivative of πέλας pélas (near); (adverbially) close by; as noun, a neighbor, i.e. fellow (as man, countryman, Christian or friend):—near, neighbour.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G4139 in the following manner: neighbour (16x), near (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G4139 in the following manner: neighbour (16x), near (1x).

  1. a neighbour

    1. a friend

    2. any other person, and where two are concerned, the other (thy fellow man, thy neighbour), according to the Jews, any member of the Hebrew nation and commonwealth

    3. according to Christ, any other man irrespective of nation or religion with whom we live or whom we chance to meet

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πλησίον plēsíon, play-see'-on; neuter of a derivative of πέλας pélas (near); (adverbially) close by; as noun, a neighbor, i.e. fellow (as man, countryman, Christian or friend):—near, neighbour.
STRONGS G4139:
πλησίον (neuter of the adjective πλησίος, πλησια, πλησίον), adverb, from Homer down, near: with a genitive of place (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 54, 6), John 4:5; with the article, ὁ πλησίον namely, ὤν (cf. Buttmann, § 125, 10; Winers Grammar, 24) (the Sept. very often for רֵעַ; sometimes for עָמִית), properly, Latinproximus (so Vulg. in the N. T.), a neighbor; i. e.
a. friend: Matthew 5:43.
b. any other person, and where two are concerned the other (thy fellow-man, thy neighbor) i. e., according to the O. T. and Jewish conception, a member of the Hebrew race and commonwealth: Acts 7:27; and Rec. in Hebrews 8:11; according to the teaching of Christ, any other man irrespective of race or religion with whom we live or whom we chance to meet (which idea is clearly brought out in the parable Luke 10:25-37): Matthew 19:19; Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31, 33; Luke 10:27; Romans 13:9, 10; (Romans 15:2); Galatians 5:14; Ephesians 4:25; James 2:8 and L T Tr WH in James 4:12; πλησίον εἶναι τίνος, to be near one (one's neighbor), i. e. in a passive sense, worthy to be regarded as a friend and companion, Luke 10:29; actively, to perform the offices of a friend and companion, Luke 10:36; (on the omission of the article in the last two examples see Buttmann, § 129, 11; Winer's Grammar, § 19 at the end).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
5:43; 19:19; 22:39
Mark
12:31; 12:33
Luke
10:25; 10:26; 10:27; 10:27; 10:28; 10:29; 10:29; 10:30; 10:31; 10:32; 10:33; 10:34; 10:35; 10:36; 10:36; 10:37
John
4:5
Acts
7:27
Romans
13:9; 13:10; 15:2
Galatians
5:14
Ephesians
4:25
Hebrews
8:11
James
2:8; 4:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4139 matches the Greek πλησίον (plēsion),
which occurs 161 times in 146 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 3 / 3 (Sng 4:1–Mal 4:6)

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Behold, you are beautiful, my love,
behold, you are beautiful!
Your eyes are doves
behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:7 - You are altogether beautiful, my love;
there is no flaw in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2 - She
I slept, but my heart was awake.
A sound! My beloved is knocking.
“Open to me, my sister, my love,
my dove, my perfect one,
for my head is wet with dew,
my locks with the drops of the night.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:16 - His mouth[fn] is most sweet,
and he is altogether desirable.
This is my beloved and this is my friend,
O daughters of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:4 - He
You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awesome as an army with banners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:5 - And the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:8 - Woe to those who join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:2 - And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians,
and they will fight, each against another
and each against his neighbor,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:6 - Everyone helps his neighbor
and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:8 - They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:21 - Therefore thus says the LORD:
‘Behold, I will lay before this people
stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble;
fathers and sons together,
neighbor and friend shall perish.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:5 - “For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 - Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:8 - Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
it speaks deceitfully;
with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor,
but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:20 - Hear, O women, the word of the LORD,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:9 - And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:8 - “‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, “Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13 - “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by injustice,
who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his wages,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:30 - Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who steal my words from one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:35 - Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:15 - You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - “Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:16 - When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 - He made many stumble, and they fell,
and they said one to another,
‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people
and to the land of our birth,
because of the sword of the oppressor.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:8 - does not lend at interest or take any profit,[fn] withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:11 - (though he himself did none of these things), who even eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:9 - Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:16 - the thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:17 - to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:7 - And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:2 - The godly has perished from the earth,
and there is no one upright among mankind;
they all lie in wait for blood,
and each hunts the other with a net.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:15 - “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink—
you pour out your wrath and make them drunk,
in order to gaze at their nakedness!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:8 - Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:10 - In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:10 - For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:16 - These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:17 - do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:9 - So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:13 - And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:16 - Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:6 - And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”[fn]

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