Word

πλεονεξία

pleonexía · G4124 · Greek · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

greed, avarice, covetousness

A strong desire to acquire more and more material possessions or to possess more things than other people have, all irrespective of need

Examples
Luke 12:15 But He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one is affluent does his life consist of his possessions.”
Romans 1:29 people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips,
Ephesians 4:19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecent behavior for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
to take advantage of, to exploit, exploitation

To take advantage of someone, usually as the result of a motivation of greed

Examples
Mark 7:22 deeds of greed, wickedness, deceit, indecent behavior, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
2 Corinthians 9:5 So I considered it necessary to urge the brothers that they go on ahead to you and arrange in advance your previously promised generous gift, that the same would be ready as a generous gift, and not as one grudgingly given due to greediness.
1 Thessalonians 2:5 For we never came with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness—

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 3 groups

εἰμίto be 1
ἔρχομαιto come 1
μέλοςmember, body part 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὀνομάζωto call 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐνin 3
ἀπόfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πρόφασιςpretense, excuse 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

בֶּצַע betsaʻ · H1215 · profit, gain, plunder: Hebrew בֶּצַע (betsaʿ) denotes covetousness and dishonest gain, directly corresponding to Greek πλεονεξία (pleonexia) which emphasizes avarice and the fraudulent acquisition of more than one's due; both terms capture the vice of greedy overreaching for unjust profit.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Greed, avarice, covetousness25.22: πλεονεξία names an insatiable desire for more, especially material possessions. Luke records Jesus's warning: “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one is affluent does his life consist of his possessions” (Luke 12:15).
To take advantage of, to exploit, exploitation88.144: The same noun can also name a greed that preys upon and exploits others. Peter describes false teachers: “having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children” (2 Peter 2:14).

Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πλείων pleíōn · G4119 · more in quantity, number, or quality; also the major portion · 55×πλήν plḗn · G4133 · but, nevertheless, except · 31×πλεονεξίαpleonexía · G4124πλεονάζω pleonázō · G4121 · to increase considerably, to become more and more, to multiply · 9×πλεονεκτέω pleonektéō · G4122 · to take advantage of, to exploit, exploitation · 5×πλεονέκτης pleonéktēs · G4123 · greedy person, covetous person · 4×ὑπερπλεονάζω hyperpleonázō · G5250 · to be more than, to be more abundant · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πλεονεξίας, ἡ (πλεονέκτης, which see), greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice:…

πλεονεξίας, ἡ (πλεονέκτης, which see), greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice: Lk 12:15; Rom 1:29; Eph 4:19; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1 Thess 2:5; 2 Pet 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 Cor 9:5 (here R. V. text extortion); plural various modes in which covetousness shows itself, covetings (cf. Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, 77 (67)), Mk 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 Col 3:5.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Desire Strongly8 occurrences Exploit3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0