Word

πλουτίζω

ploutízō · G4148 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to enrich, to make rich, to cause to become rich

To cause someone to become rich

Examples
2 Corinthians 6:10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 9:11 you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God.
to make rich in, to cause to have an abundance of

To cause someone to have an abundance of that which is of value or worth

Examples
1 Corinthians 1:5 that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,

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

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated (participle) 2
Not stated: you (more than one) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πολύςmany 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 5 groups

ἐνin+ πᾶςall, every, each 2
εἰςto+ ἁπλότηςgenerosity, sincerity 1
ἐνin+ γνῶσιςknowledge 1
ἐνin+ λόγοςword, saying, message 1
ἐνin+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εὐχαριστέωto give thanks, to thank 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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Contrasting words 1 word

πτωχεύω ptōcheúō · G4433 · to become poor: Lexical opposite expressing the contrary state transformation: πλουτίζω means 'to make wealthy' while πτωχεύω means 'to become poor' or 'to make poor,' representing the antithetical economic state change.

In the other Testament 1 word

עָשַׁר ʻâshar · H6238 · to be rich, to become rich, to pretend to be rich: The standard Hebrew verb for becoming or making rich; in Hiphil stem means 'to make rich, to enrich,' providing a direct translational equivalent for πλουτίζω's causative sense of making wealthy.

Semantic domains 2 entries

To enrich, to make rich, to cause to become rich57.29: πλουτίζω describes causing another to become wealthy, most often in a figurative, spiritual sense. Paul describes his own paradoxical circumstance: “as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things” (2 Corinthians 6:10).
To make rich in, to cause to have an abundance of59.59: The same verb can describe causing someone to abound in a particular quality, not material wealth specifically. Paul commends the Corinthians' own spiritual gifting: “that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge” (1 Corinthians 1:5).

Word family 22 words

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

πλήθω plḗthō · G4130 · to fill completely, to fill up, to cause to happen · 24×πληρόω plēróō · G4137 · to fill, to make complete, to complete the number of · 86×πλῆθος plēthos · G4128 · large number of, a multitude of, crowd · 31×πλούσιος ploúsios · G4145 · rich, wealthy, well-to-do · 28×πλοῦτος ploûtos · G4149 · wealth, riches, abundance · 22×πλήρωμα plḗrōma · G4138 · that which fills, contents, full number · 17×πλήρης plḗrēs · G4134 · full, whole, complete · 16×πληθύνω plēthýnō · G4129 · to grow, to increase greatly, to multiply · 12×πλουτέω ploutéō · G4147 · to be rich, to be wealthy, well-todo · 12×ἀναπληρόω anaplēróō · G378 · to make complete, to complete the number of, to provide what is lacking · 6×πληροφορέω plērophoréō · G4135 · to cause to happen, to make happen, to fulfill · 6×πληροφορία plērophoría · G4136 · to be absolutely sure, to be certain, complete certainty · 4×πλουσίως plousíōs · G4146 · in large amount, in abundance, rich · 4×πλουτίζωploutízō · G4148συμπληρόω symplēróō · G4845 · to be swamped, to have a boat filling rapidly with water, to complete · 3×προσαναπληρόω prosanaplēróō · G4322 · to provide fully · 2×ἀνταναπληρόω antanaplēróō · G466 · to fill up, to complete, to make complete · 1×ἐκπληρόω ekplēróō · G1603 · to cause to happen, to make happen, to fulfill · 1×ἐκπλήρωσις ekplḗrōsis · G1604 · end, completion · 1×παμπληθεί pamplētheí · G3826 · all together · 1×πλήμμυρα plḗmmyra · G4132 · flood, high water · 1×πλησμονή plēsmonḗ · G4140 · gratification, indulgence · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon passive, present participle πλουτιζόμενος; 1 aorist ἐπλουτίσθην; (πλοῦτος); to make rich,…

passive, present participle πλουτιζόμενος; 1 aorist ἐπλουτίσθην; (πλοῦτος); to make rich, to enrich: τινα, passive, 2 Cor 9:11; used of spiritual riches: τινα, 2 Cor 6:10; ἐν with a dative of the thing (see πλουτέω, a.), passive, to be richly furnished, 1 Cor 1:5. (Aeschylus, Sophicles, Xenophon, Plutarch; the Sept. for הֶעֱשִׁיר.)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Be Rich, Be Wealthy2 occurrences Abundance, Excess, Sparing1 occurrence

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