φιλάργυρος
philárgyros · G5366 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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loving wealth, lover of riches
Pertaining to the love of wealth or money
ExamplesLuke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were ridiculing Him.
2 Timothy 3:2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- πλεονέκτης pleonéktēs · G4123 · greedy person, covetous person
- Greek noun for a covetous or greedy person; overlaps substantially with φιλάργυρος in denoting greed, though πλεονέκτης emphasizes desire for more in general while φιλάργυρος specifically focuses on love of money
- αἰσχροκερδής aischrokerdḗs · G146 · shamefully greedy, greedily
- Greek adjective denoting greed for shameful profit; closely related to φιλάργυρος in the semantic field of financial greed, though αἰσχροκερδής emphasizes the shameful/base nature of the gain
In the other Testament 1 word
- בֶּצַע betsaʻ · H1215 · profit, gain, plunder
- Hebrew noun for unjust/dishonest gain, closely matching the avarice concept of φιλάργυρος
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Loving wealth, lover of riches25.108
- Luke 16:14 describes the Pharisees, “who were lovers of money”, ridiculing Jesus.
Word family 37 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φιλαργυρον (φίλος and ἄργυρος), loving money, avaricious: Lk 16:14; 2 Tim 3:2.…
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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