Word Summary
nosphizō: to abandon, to set apart
Original Word: νοσφίζωTransliteration: nosphizō
Phonetic Spelling: (nos-fid'-zom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to abandon, to set apart
Meaning: to abandon, to set apart
Strong's Concordance
keep back, purloin.
Middle voice from nosphi (apart or clandestinely); to sequestrate for oneself, i.e. Embezzle -- keep back, purloin.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3557: νοσφίζωνοσφίζω: middle, present participle
νοσφιζόμενος; 1 aorist
ἐνοσφισαμην; (
νόσφι afar, apart);
to set apart, separate, divide; middle
to set apart or separate for oneself, i. e.
to purloin, embezzle, withdraw covertly and appropriate to one's own use:
χρήματα,
Xenophon, Cyril 4, 2, 42;
Plutarch, Lucull. 37; Aristid. 4;
μηδέν τῶν ἐκ τῆς διαρπαγης,
Polybius 10, 16, 6;
χρυσώματα, 2 Macc. 4:32;
ἀλλότρια,
Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 29; absolutely,
Titus 2:10; (
τί)
ἀπό τίνος,
Acts 5:2, 3 (here
A. V. keep back); the
Sept. Joshua 7:1;
ἐκ τίνος,
Athen. 6, p. 234 a.