Strong's #4124: pleonexia (pronounced pleh-on-ex-ee'-ah)

from 4123; avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion:--covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pleonexia

1) greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G4123

Citing in TDNT: 6:266, 864

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

Mark 7:22: "Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy,"
Luke 12:15: "and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth"
Romans 1:29: "unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,"
2 Corinthians 9:5: "a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness."
Ephesians 4:19: "work all uncleanness with greediness."
Ephesians 5:3: "all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you,"
Colossians 3:5: "evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
1 Thessalonians 2:5: "used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God"
2 Peter 2:3: "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose"
2 Peter 2:14: "a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"