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Extortion

2Greek/Hebrew entries

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Greek G4124 pleonexía

Original: πλεονεξία

Meaning:
from πλεονέκτης; avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion:--covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: avarice, i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion:--covetous(-ness) practices, greediness.

Hebrew H6233 ʻôsheq

Original: עֹשֶׁק

Meaning:
from עָשַׁק; injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain; cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten).

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten).

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^{Ezekiel 22:12} In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. Open

^{Matthew 23:25} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Open

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