ΦΙΛΑΡΓΥΡΙΑ, φιλαργυρια
PHILARGYRIA, philargyria
Sounds Like: phi-lar-gy-REE-a
Translations: love of money, covetousness, avarice, greed, a love of money, a covetousness, an avarice, a greed
From the root: ΦΙΛΑΡΓΥΡΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This is a compound noun meaning 'love of money' or 'greed'. It describes an excessive desire for wealth or material possessions. It is often used in a negative sense to denote a vice or a harmful disposition, implying that such a love of money is the root of various evils.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G5365 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:9
Codex Sinaiticus
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 4:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 1:26
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 1 Timothy — 6:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΑΡΓΥΡΙΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΦΙΛΑΡΓΥΡΙΑΝ — love of money, covetousness, greed, avarice, a love of money, a covetousness, a greed, an avarice
- ΦΙΛΑΡΓΥΡΙΑΣ — of the love of money, of covetousness, of avarice
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