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|strgr=from [[πλεονέκτης]]; [[avarice]], i.e. (by [[implication]]) fraudulency, [[extortion]]: [[covetous]](-ness) practices, [[greediness]]. | |strgr=from [[πλεονέκτης]]; [[avarice]], i.e. (by [[implication]]) fraudulency, [[extortion]]: [[covetous]](-ness) practices, [[greediness]]. | ||
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|txtha=πλεονεξίας, ἡ ([[πλεονέκτης]], [[which]] [[see]]), [[greedy]] [[desire]] to [[have]] [[more]], [[covetousness]], [[avarice]]: Winer's Grammar, 120 (114)), 14; ὡς ( [[ὥσπερ]]) πλεονεξίαν (as a [[matter]] of [[covetousness]]), i. e. a [[gift]] [[which]] betrays the [[giver]]'s [[covetousness]], R. V. [[text]] [[extortion]]); plural [[various]] modes in [[which]] [[covetousness]] shows itself, covetings (cf. Winer s Grammar, § 27,3; Buttmann, 77 (67)), [[Herodotus]] and [[Thucydides]] [[down]].) (Trench, N. T. Synonyms, § xxiv., and (in [[partial]] [[correction]]) Lightfoot's Commentary on Colossians 3:5.) | |||
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