Greek noun (feminine) · G4124
πλεονεξία
pleonexiapleh-on-ex-ee'-ah
advantage.; desire for advantage, grasping, aggression, cupidity, covetousness
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pleonexía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4124is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4124
avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion
The King James renders it: covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pleonexia is rendered "advantage.; desire for advantage, grasping, aggression, cupidity, covetousness". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across eight books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ephesians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "advantage.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
Mark 7:22πλεονεξίαι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: advantage., and desire for advantage, grasping, aggression, cupidity, covetousness.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| advantage. | Tagged as
| WhereMark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. |
| desire for advantage, grasping, aggression, cupidity, covetousnessLuk.12:15, Rom.1:29, 2Co.9:5, Eph.4:19 (see ICC, in l) Eph.5:3, Col.3:5, 1Th.2:5, 2Pe.2:3 2:14; pl. (see Bl., § 32, 6), Mrk.7:22.† | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 12:15And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πλεονάζω | pleonazo | to increase | Uses9 |
| πλεονεκτέω | pleonekteo | to exploit | Uses5 |
| πλεονέκτης | pleonektes | greedy | Uses4 |
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πλεονεξίας3
- πλεονεξίᾳ2
- πλεονεξίαν2
- πλεονεξία1
- πλεονεξίᾳ.¶1
- πλεονεξίαι1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular3N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Mark
one use
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
- πλεονεξίαιpleonexiainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: covetous desires
Luke
one use
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
- πλεονεξίαςpleonexiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: covetousness
Romans
one use
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
- πλεονεξίᾳpleonexianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: covetousness
2 Corinthians
one use
So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you beforehand and make arrangements for the bountiful gift you had promised. This way, your gift will be prepared generously and not begrudgingly.
- πλεονεξίανpleonexiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: covetousness
Ephesians
two uses
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
- πλεονεξίᾳ.¶pleonexianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: greediness
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
- πλεονεξίαpleonexianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: covetousness
Colossians
one use
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- πλεονεξίανpleonexiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: covetousness
1 Thessalonians
one use
As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
- πλεονεξίαςpleonexiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: for greed —
2 Peter
two uses
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
- πλεονεξίᾳpleonexianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: covetousness
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
- πλεονεξίαςpleonexiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: in craving
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.