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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:
Read in context →And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Read in context →4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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betsaʻ · beh'-tsah
plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust)
Strong's KJV usage: covetousness, (dishonest) gain, lucre, profit.
Strong's first: Exodus 18:21Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:9
Open full H1215 profile →pleonexía · pleh-on-ex-ee'-ah
avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion
Strong's KJV usage: :--covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.
Strong's first: Mark 7:22Strong's last: 2 Peter 2:3
Open full G4124 profile →aphilárgyros · af-il-ar'-goo-ros
unavaricious
Strong's KJV usage: :--without covetousness, not greedy of filthy lucre.
Strong's first: Hebrews 13:5Strong's last: Hebrews 13:5
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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!
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COVETOUSNESS, noun
1. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; usually in a bad sense, and applied to an inordinate desire of wealth or avarice.
Out of the heart proceedeth covetousness Mark 7:22.
Mortify your members--and covetousness which is idolatry. Colossians 3:5.
2. Strong desire; eagerness.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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