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πλεονεξία

Strong’s: G4124

Associated OET lemmas: πλεονεξία

Notes: Though in RV CO2 9:5 · LV CO2 9:5 · Read together CO2 9:5 one may translate μὴ ὡς πλεονεξίαν as ‘not because you are being taken advantage of,’ the meaning of πλεονεξία is essentially active and may also be rendered as ‘not because someone is exploiting you.’

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: πλεονεξία; -ας

Constructions: πλεονεξία; πλεονάζω; ἔχω

Sense 1: greed, avarice, covetousness

Semantic entry: 25.22

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Desire Strongly

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

LUK 12:15: RV LUK 12:15 · LV LUK 12:15 · Read together LUK 12:15

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OET-RV LUK 12:15

15 Then he told them, “Keep alert to avoid all greediness, because a person’s life is not about gaining lots of possessions.”

OET-LV LUK 12:15

15 And he _said to them:
Be _watching and be _keeping from all greediness, because the life of _him is not in the thing to _be _being _plentiful to _anyone, of the things possessing to _him.

ROM 1:29: RV ROM 1:29 · LV ROM 1:29 · Read together ROM 1:29

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OET-RV ROM 1:29

29 and so they were filled with disobedience, wickedness, greed, and malice, and full of envy, murder, strife, and deceit, becoming malicious people, gossips,

OET-LV ROM 1:29

29 having _been _filled with _all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of _envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness, gossips,

All 8 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: RV LUK 12:15 · LV LUK 12:15 · Read together LUK 12:15

ROM: RV ROM 1:29 · LV ROM 1:29 · Read together ROM 1:29

EPH: RV EPH 4:19 · RV EPH 5:3 · LV EPH 4:19 · LV EPH 5:3 · Read together EPH 4:19 · Read together EPH 5:3

COL: RV COL 3:5 · LV COL 3:5 · Read together COL 3:5

TH1: RV TH1 2:5 · LV TH1 2:5 · Read together TH1 2:5

PE2: RV PE2 2:3 · RV PE2 2:14 · LV PE2 2:3 · LV PE2 2:14 · Read together PE2 2:3 · Read together PE2 2:14

Sense 2: to take advantage of, to exploit, exploitation

Semantic entry: 88.144

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Exploit

Definition: to take advantage of someone, usually as the result of a motivation of greed

Notes: It is also possible to understand πλεονεξία in RV CO2 9:5 · LV CO2 9:5 · Read together CO2 9:5 as referring to ‘compulsion.’

MRK 7:22: RV MRK 7:22 · LV MRK 7:22 · Read together MRK 7:22

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Combined passage: org MRK 7:21–22 (native MRK 7:21–22; verse text cannot be split).

OET-RV MRK 7:21-22

21-22 ⇔“That’s because evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, lust, slander, pride, and foolishness all come from inside people’s hearts and minds.

OET-LV MRK 7:22

22 greediness, wickedness, deceit, wantonness, eyeing evil, slander, pride, foolishness.

CO2 9:5: RV CO2 9:5 · LV CO2 9:5 · Read together CO2 9:5

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OET-RV CO2 9:5

5 That’s why I considered it necessary to encourage the brothers to go ahead to you all there so they could prearrange the gift that you’d previously promised so that it would be ready as a blessing and not appear as our greediness.

OET-LV CO2 9:5

5 Therefore necessary I _considered it to _exhort the brothers, in _order _that they _may _go _ahead to you _all and they _may _prearrange the having _previously _promised blessing of _you _all, this ready to _be thus as a_blessing, and not as greediness.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: RV MRK 7:22 · LV MRK 7:22 · Read together MRK 7:22

CO2: RV CO2 9:5 · LV CO2 9:5 · Read together CO2 9:5

TH1: RV TH1 2:5 · LV TH1 2:5 · Read together TH1 2:5