Pleonéktēs — G4123
G4123 · Greek — πλεονέκτης
Pronunciation: pleh-on-ek'-tace
Definition
masculine noun
holding (desiring) more, i.e. eager for gain (avaricious, hence a defrauder)
- one eager to have more, especially what belongs to others
- greedy of gain, covetous
Usually translated as
covetous
Origin
from G4119 and G2192
Occurrences
Pleonéktēs occurs 4 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Corinthians (3), Ephesians (1)
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 — Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous (πλεονέκταις), or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous (πλεονέκτης), or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 — Nor thieves, nor covetous (πλεονέκται), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
- Ephesians 5:5 — For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (πλεονέκτης), who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Strong's Lexicon — P