πλεονεξία
pleonexía
“avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion”
10 occurrencesNew TestamentUncommon Word
Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
some advantage which one possesses over another; an inordinate desire of riches, covetousness, Lk. 12:15; grasping, overreaching, extortion, Rom. 1:29; 1 Thess. 2:5; a gift exacted by importunity and conferred with grudging, a hard-wrung gift, 2 Cor. 9:5; a scheme of extortion, Mk. 7:22
Translated in KJV as
covetous(-ness) practicesgreediness
Etymology
from G4123 (πλεονέκτης);
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