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STRONGS NUMBER G4122
Transliteration: pleonekteō
Phonetic Spelling: (pleh-on-cek-teh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to have more, to overreach
Meaning: to have more, to overreach
πλεονεκτέω, πλεονέκτω; 1 aorist ἐπλεονέκτησα; 1 aorist passive subjunctive 1 person plural πλεονεκτηθῶμεν; (πλεονέκτης);
Word Summary
pleonekteō: to have more, to overreach
Original Word: πλεονεκτέωTransliteration: pleonekteō
Phonetic Spelling: (pleh-on-cek-teh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to have more, to overreach
Meaning: to have more, to overreach
Strong's Concordance
take advantage, defraud, make a gain. From pleonektes; to be covetous, i.e. (by implication) to over-reach -- get an advantage, defraud, make a gain.
see GREEK pleonektes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4122: πλεονεκτέωπλεονεκτέω, πλεονέκτω; 1 aorist ἐπλεονέκτησα; 1 aorist passive subjunctive 1 person plural πλεονεκτηθῶμεν; (πλεονέκτης);
1. intransitive, to have more, or a greater part or share: Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, others; to be superior, excel, surpass, have an advantage over, τίνος (genitive of person) τίνι (the dative of thing): Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, others.
2. transitive, to gain or take advantage of another, to overreach: (Herodotus 8, 112), Plato, Diodorus, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Dio Cassius, others; and so in the N. T. in 2 Corinthians 7:2; 2 Corinthians 12:17, 18; 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (see πρᾶγμα, b.); passive (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 22) ὑπό τίνος, 2 Corinthians 2:11(10).