πλήκτης
plḗktēs · G4131 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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bully, violent person
A person who is pugnacious and demanding
Examples1 Timothy 3:3 not overindulging in wine, not a bully, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
Titus 1:7 For the overseer must be beyond reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not overindulging in wine, not a bully, not greedy for money,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Contrasting words 2 words
- ἐπιεικής epieikḗs · G1933 · gentle, gracious, forbearing
- Standard lexical opposite of πλήκτης in vice/virtue lists; gentleness vs. violence/quarrelsomeness. Explicitly contrasted in 1 Tim 3:3 pastoral qualifications.
- πραΰς praÿs · G4239 · mild, gentle, meek
- Lexical opposite denoting mildness and non-aggression, the character trait directly contrary to the violent, pugnacious nature of a πλήκτης
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Bully, violent person88.137
- πλήκτης names a person prone to violence, especially one who strikes others. Paul lists this among the disqualifications for an overseer: “not overindulging in wine, not a bully, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money” (1 Timothy 3:3).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πληκτου, ὁ (πλήσσω) (Vulg.percussor), (A. V. striker), bruiser, ready with a blow; a…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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