Greek verb · G4147
πλουτέω
plouteoploo-teh'-o
be rich
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ploutéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4147is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4147
to be (or become) wealthy (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: be increased with goods, (be made, wax) rich.
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
plouteo is rendered "be rich". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Five of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
Luke 1:53πλουτοῦντας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's twelve uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- being rich2
- to be rich2
- were enriched2
- having been enriched1
- I have grown rich1
- is rich1
- may be enriched1
- you have been enriched1
- you may be rich1
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.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- πλουτεῖν2
- πλουτῶν2
- ἐπλούτησαν1
- ἐπλούτησαν.¶1
- ἐπλουτήσατε1
- πεπλούτηκα1
- πλουτήσαντες1
- πλουτήσῃς1
- πλουτήσητε1
- πλουτοῦντας1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-AAI-3P
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PAN
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-PAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-AAI-2P
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-AAP-NPM
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-AAS-2P
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-AAS-2S
- verb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-PAP-APM
- verb · perfect active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-RAI-1S
Luke
two uses
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- πλουτοῦνταςploutountasverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: being rich
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
- πλουτῶνploutonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: being rich
Romans
one use
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- πλουτῶνploutonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: is rich
1 Corinthians
one use
Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
- ἐπλουτήσατεeploutesateverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you have been enriched
2 Corinthians
one use
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
- πλουτήσητεplouteseteverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: may be enriched
1 Timothy
two uses
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- πλουτεῖνplouteinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be rich
Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,
- πλουτεῖνplouteinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be rich
Revelation
five uses
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
- πεπλούτηκαpeploutekaverb · perfect active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I have grown rich
I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
- πλουτήσῃςploutesesverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may be rich
All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
- ἐπλούτησαν.¶eploutesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were enriched
The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
- πλουτήσαντεςploutesantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having been enriched
Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”
- ἐπλούτησανeploutesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were enriched
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.