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Strong's #4122: pleonekteo (pronounced pleh-on-cek-teh'-o)

from 4123; to be covetous, i.e. (by implication) to over-reach:--get an advantage, defraud, make a gain.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pleonekteō

1) to have more, or a greater part or share

1a) to be superior, excel, surpass, have an advantage over

2) to gain or take advantage of another, to overreach

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4123

Citing in TDNT: 6:266, 864




Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

2 Corinthians 2:11: "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices."
2 Corinthians 7:2: "no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man."
2 Corinthians 12:17: "Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent"
2 Corinthians 12:18: "a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the"
1 Thessalonians 4:6: "That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter:"









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