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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 1 / 3 (Gen 11:3–Deu 27:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their [fn]language, so that they will not understand one another’s [fn]language.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:31 - In the morning they arose early, and each swore to [fn]the other; then Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:13 - Then he went out the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were struggling with each other; and he said to the [fn]wicked one, “Why are you striking your companion?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:2 - “Speak now in the [fn]hearing of the people so that each man may ask from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:4 - ‘Now if the household is too small for a [fn]lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the [fn]number of persons in them; according to [fn]what each man should eat, you are to [fn]apportion the lamb.

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“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male slave or his female slave or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:14 - “If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him by deceit, you shall take him even from My altar, that he may die.

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“And if men contend with each other and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but [fn]remains in bed,

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“And if one man’s ox [fn]hurts another’s so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally; and also they shall divide the dead ox.

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“If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is [fn]caught, he shall pay double.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8 - “If the thief is not [fn]caught, then the owner of the house shall [fn]appear before [fn]the judges to determine whether he [fn]laid his hands on his neighbor’s property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:9 - “For every [fn]breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, ‘This is it,’ the [fn]case of both parties shall come before [fn]the judges; he whom [fn]the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

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“If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is injured or is driven away while no one is looking,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - then an oath before Yahweh shall be made by the two of them [fn]that he has not [fn]laid hands on his neighbor’s property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

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“If a man [fn]borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:26 - “If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun sets,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - And he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Every man among you put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother and every man his friend and every man his [fn]neighbor.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:3 - “And no man is to come up with you, nor let any man be seen [fn]anywhere on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front of that mountain.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:2 - “If a person sins and acts unfaithfully against Yahweh and deals falsely with his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:20 - ‘And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

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‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

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‘You shall not oppress your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of a hired man shall not remain with you overnight until morning.

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‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:16 - ‘You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand against the [fn]life of your neighbor; I am Yahweh.

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‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, and so not bear sin because of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:18 - ‘You shall not take vengeance, and you shall not keep your anger against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am Yahweh.

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‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:19 - ‘If a man [fn]injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - ‘If you make a sale, moreover, to your companion or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not mistreat one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - ‘Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your [fn]companion; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of produce.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:17 - ‘So you shall not mistreat one another, but you shall [fn]fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

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They journeyed from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom.

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These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite [fn]Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that a manslayer might flee there, who slew his neighbor [fn]without premeditation, [fn]not hating him previously; so he shall flee to one of these cities that he might live:

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‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male slave or his female slave, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - “Are they not across the Jordan, west of the way toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the [fn]oaks of Moreh?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - “And this is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother because the remission from Yahweh has been proclaimed.

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“Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he strikes down his friend [fn]without premeditation, [fn]not hating him previously—

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand [fn]swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the [fn]handle and [fn]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live;

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“But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes down [fn]his life so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

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“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to [fn]possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:24 - then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them, and they will die; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - “But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - “You shall be careful and do what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to Yahweh your God that which you spoke with your mouth.

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“When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain.

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“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his deposit.

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‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


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