Definition

avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion

Etymology

from G4123 (πλεονέκτης);

Word family

• πλεονέκτης pleonéktēs

How the KJV renders it

• covetous(-ness) practices
• greediness

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.