πλησίον
πεσούσης νυκτός, πάσα γυνὴ Λαΐς εστί → at nightfall, every woman is a Laïs | all cats are gray at night | all cats are gray by night | all cats are gray in the dark | all cats are grey at night | all cats are grey by night | all cats are grey in the dark | all women look the same with the lights off | when lights are out all women look the same
French (Bailly abrégé)
adv.
v. πλησίος.
English (Strong)
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.
English (Thayer)
(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.
a. 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).
