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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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πλεονεξία

Strong’s: G4124

Associated OET lemmas: πλεονεξία

Notes: Though in OET 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

Show passage in OET: LUK 12:15

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.
Show passage in OET: ROM 1:29

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,

Jump to OET LUK 12:15 section.

Jump to OET ROM 1:29 section.

All 8 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: OET LUK 12:15

ROM: OET ROM 1:29

EPH: OET EPH 4:19 · OET EPH 5:3

COL: OET COL 3:5

TH1: OET TH1 2:5

PE2: OET PE2 2:3 · OET 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 OET CO2 9:5 as referring to ‘compulsion.’

Show passage in OET: MRK 7:22

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.
Show passage in OET: CO2 9:5

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.

Jump to OET MRK 7:22 section.

Jump to OET CO2 9:5 section.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: OET MRK 7:22

CO2: OET CO2 9:5

TH1: OET TH1 2:5