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Greek verb · G650

ἀποστερέω

apostereoap-os-ter-eh'-o

to defraud

6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: aposteréō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G650is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 5
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G650

to despoil

The King James renders it: defraud, destitute, kept back by fraud.

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

apostereo is rendered "to defraud". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across four books.

  • Three of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
  • The Greek text spells it five different ways.

The first use

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”

Mark 10:19ἀποστερήσῃς

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Three of the word's six uses are in 1 Corinthians.

The other 23 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • be defrauded1
  • defraud1
  • defrauded1
  • do deprive1
  • kept back1
  • shall you defraud1

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.

ἀποστέλλωapostelloto sendUses132
ἀπόστολοςapostolosapostleUses79
ἀποστρέφωapostrephoto turn awayUses9
ἀποσπάωapospaoto draw awayUses4
ἀποστολήapostoleapostleshipUses4
ἀποστάσιονapostasiondivorceUses3
ἀποσυνάγωγοςaposynagogosexcommunicatedUses3
ἀποστασίαapostasiaapostasyUses2
ἀποστυγέωapostygeoto abhorUses1
ἀποσκευάζωaposkeuazoto pack upUses1
ἀποσκίασμαaposkiasmashadowUses1
ἀποστεγάζωapostegazoto unroofUses1

and 1 more on the stem.

All 6, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

5 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

  • ἀποστερεῖτε2
  • ἀπεστερημένος1
  • ἀπεστερημένων1
  • ἀποστερεῖσθε1
  • ἀποστερήσῃς1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-AAS-2S
  • verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PAI-2P
  • verb · present active, command · 2nd person plural1V-PAM-2P
  • verb · present passive, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PPI-2P
  • verb · perfect passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1V-RPP-GPM
  • verb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-RPP-NSM

Mark

one use
  • You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”

    Mark 10:19

    • ἀποστερήσῃςaposteresesverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: shall you defraud

1 Corinthians

three uses
  • The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

    1 Corinthians 6:7

    • ἀποστερεῖσθεapostereistheverb · present passive, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: be defrauded
  • Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

    1 Corinthians 6:8

    • ἀποστερεῖτεapostereiteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: defraud
  • Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

    1 Corinthians 7:5

    • ἀποστερεῖτεapostereiteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do deprive

1 Timothy

one use
  • and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.

    1 Timothy 6:5

    • ἀπεστερημένωνapesteremenonverb · perfect passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: defrauded

James

one use
  • Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

    James 5:4

    • ἀπεστερημένοςapesteremenosverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: kept back

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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