noun · masculine
pleonektos
Strong’sG4123
a covetous person
stem pleonekt-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** πλεονέκτης, -ου, ὁ
(< πλέον, ἔχω), [in LXX: Si 14:9*;] = ὁ θέλων πλέον ἔχειν (v. MM, xx),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4123 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpleh-on-ek'-tace
holding (desiring) more, i.e. eager for gain (avaricious, hence a defrauder)
Fromfrom G4119 and G2192;
King Jamescovetous.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
={ὁ πλέον ἔχων}, one who has or claims more than his due, greedy, grasping, Refs 5th c.BC+ adjective λόγος π. a greedy, arrogant speech, Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative πλεονεκτίστατος Refs 5th c.BC+
2 ἐν παντὶ πλεονέκτην τῶν πολεμίων making gain from their losses, Refs
3 metaphorically in in Mathematics texts, of τὸ ὑπερτελές, Refs 4th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pleonektos2×πλεονέκτης | pleonektois1×πλεονέκται |
| object accusative | pleonekton | pleonektoin |
| direct address vocative | pleonektor | pleonektoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | pleonektou | pleonektoiu |
| to, for dative | pleonekto | pleonektoi1×πλεονέκταις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pleonekto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
pleonektos“greedy”subjectnominative singular2×
1 Corinthians 5:11… tinos adelfos onomazorōntos ateiō pornos ē pleonektos ē eidōlolatros ē loidoros ē methusos …… brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser …
Ephesians 5:5… hoti pantos pornos ē akathartos ē pleonektos, hem atō eidōlolatros, ouk echatō klēronomian …… be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has …
pleonektois“greedy”subjectnominative plural1×
1 Corinthians 6:10oute kleptois oute pleonektois, ouk methusois, ouk loidorois, ouk harpagois …nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor …
pleonektoi“greedy”to, fordative plural1×
1 Corinthians 5:10… pornoi tou kosmou houtou ē toi pleonektoi kai harpagoi ē eidōlolatroi, epei ofeilave …… immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that …