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True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S

בֶּצַע

H1215 · betsaʻ · beh'-tsah · Hebrew

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Strong’s definition

plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust)

KJV usage

covetousness, (dishonest) gain, lucre, profit.

23mapped occurrences
23verses
4KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping

covetousness 10gain 9profit 3lucre 1

Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).

Mapped occurrences

Genesis 37:26Mapped KJV word: profit

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Exodus 18:21Mapped KJV word: covetousness

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Judges 5:19Mapped KJV word: gain

The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

1 Samuel 8:3Mapped KJV word: lucre

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Job 22:3Mapped KJV word: gain

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Psalms 30:9Mapped KJV word: profit

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Psalms 119:36Mapped KJV word: covetousness

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Proverbs 1:19Mapped KJV word: gain

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Proverbs 15:27Mapped KJV word: gain

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

Proverbs 28:16Mapped KJV word: covetousness

The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

Isaiah 33:15Mapped KJV word: gain

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Isaiah 56:11Mapped KJV word: gain

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

Isaiah 57:17Mapped KJV word: covetousness

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

Jeremiah 6:13Mapped KJV word: covetousness

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Jeremiah 8:10Mapped KJV word: covetousness

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Jeremiah 22:17Mapped KJV word: covetousness

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Jeremiah 51:13Mapped KJV word: covetousness

O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

Ezekiel 22:13Mapped KJV word: gain

Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

Ezekiel 22:27Mapped KJV word: gain

Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 33:31Mapped KJV word: covetousness

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Micah 4:13Mapped KJV word: gain

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

Habakkuk 2:9Mapped KJV word: covetousness

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

Malachi 3:14Mapped KJV word: profit

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?