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|btext=<i>adv.</i><br />v. [[πλησίος]].
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{{StrongGR
|strgr=neuter of a derivative of pelas ([[near]]); (adverbially) [[close]] by; as [[noun]], a neighbor, i.e. [[fellow]] (as [[man]], [[countryman]], Christian or [[friend]]): [[near]], [[neighbour]].
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{{Thayer
|txtha=(neuter of the adjective [[πλησίος]], πλησια, [[πλησίον]]), adverb, from [[Homer]] [[down]], [[near]]: [[with]] a genitive of [[place]] (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 54,6), ὁ [[πλησίον]] [[namely]], ὤν (cf. Buttmann, § 125,10; Winer s Grammar, 24) (the Sept. [[very]] [[often]] for רֵעַ ; [[sometimes]] for עָמִית), [[properly]], Latin proximus (so Vulg. in the N. T.), a neighbor; i. e.<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[friend]]: [[any]] [[other]] [[person]], and [[where]] [[two]] are concerned the [[other]] ([[thy]] [[fellow]]- Prayer of Manasseh , [[thy]] neighbor) i. e., according to the O. T. and Jewish [[conception]], a [[member]] of the [[Hebrew]] [[race]] and [[commonwealth]]: in L T Tr WH in [[πλησίον]] [[εἶναι]] τίνος, to be [[near]] [[one]] ([[one]]'s neighbor), i. e. in a [[passive]] [[sense]], [[worthy]] to be regarded as a [[friend]] and [[companion]], Buttmann, § 129,11; Winer's Grammar, § 19 at the [[end]]).
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