Strong's #2585: kapeleuo (pronounced kap-ale-yoo'-o)

from kapelos (a huckster); to retail, i.e. (by implication) to adulterate (figuratively):--corrupt.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kapēleuō

1) to be a retailer, to peddle

2) to make money by selling anything

2a) to get sordid gain by dealing in anything, to do a thing for base gain

2b) to trade in the word of God

2b1) to try to get base gain by teaching divine truth

2c) to corrupt, to adulterate

2c1) peddlers were in the habit of adulterating their commodities for the sake of gain

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from kapelos (a huckster)

Citing in TDNT: 3:603, 415

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

2 Corinthians 2:17: "not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but"