Covet

lone-traveler · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: Covet

I know this is long, but I found it interesting how words and the meanings of words can change over languages and time.

Covet, coveted, coveteth, covetous, covetousness

Betsa..
1) profit, unjust gain, gain (profit) acquired by violence.

Chamad..
1) to desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in
a) (Qal) to desire
b) (Niphal) to be desirable
c) (Piel) to delight greatly, desire greatly

Avah...
1) desire, incline, covet, wait longingly, wish, sigh, want, be greedy, prefer
a) (Piel) to desire, crave (food and drink)
b) (Hithpael) to desire, long for, lust after (of bodily appetites)

Ta Avah...
1) desire
a) desire, wish, longings of one's heart
1) lust, appetite, covetousness (bad sense)
b) thing desired, object of desire

Pleonexia...
1) greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice

Philargyros...
1) loving money, avarice

Epithymeo...
1) to turn upon a thing
2) to have a desire for, long for, to desire
3) to lust after, covet
a) of those who seek things forbidden

Epithymia...
1) desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust

Pleonektes...
1) one eager to have more, esp. what belongs to others
2) greedy of gain, covetous

zeloo...
1) to burn with zeal
a) to be heated or to boil with envy, hatred, anger
1) in a good sense, to be zealous in the pursuit of good
b) to desire earnestly, pursue
1) to desire one earnestly, to strive after, busy one's self about him
2) to exert one's self for one (that he may not be torn from me)
3) to be the object of the zeal of others, to be zealously sought after
c) to envy

aphilargyros...
1) not loving money, not avaricious

philarguria...
1) love of money, avarice

orego...
1) to stretch one's self out in order to touch or to grasp something, to reach after or desire something
2) to give one's self up to the love of money

Exd 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating
covetousness (Betsa); and place [such] over them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Exd 20:17 Thou shalt not covet (Chamad) thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet (Chamad) thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's.

Deu 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire (Chamad) thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet (Avah) thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour's.

Jos 7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted (Chamad) them, and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

Psa 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire (Ta Avah), and blesseth the covetous (Betsa), [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

Psa 119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness (Betsa).

Pro 21:26 He coveteth (Avah) greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

Pro 28:16 The prince that wanteth understanding [is] also a great oppressor: [but] he that hateth covetousness (Betsa) shall prolong [his] days.

Isa 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness (Betsa) was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

Jer 6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one [is] given to covetousness (Betsa); and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Jer 8:10 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 (Betsa), from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Jer 22:17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness (Betsa), and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].

Jer 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy covetousness (Betsa).

Eze 33:31 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 (Betsa).

Mic 2:2 And they covet(Chamad) fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Hab 2:9 Woe to him that coveteth (Betsa) an evil covetousness (Betsa) to his house, that he may set his nest on
high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

Mar 7:22 Thefts, covetousness (Pleonexia), wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Luk 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness (Pleonexia): for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Luk 16:14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous (philargyros), heard all these things: and they derided him.

Act 20:33 I have coveted (epithymeo) no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness (Pleonexia), maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had
not known lust (epithymia), except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet (epithymeo).

Rom 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet (Epithymeo); and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

1Cr 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous (Pleonektes), or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

1Cr 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous (Pleonektes), or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

1Cr 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous (Pleonektes), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

1Cr 12:31 But covet (zeloo) earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

1Cr 14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet (zeloo) to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

2Cr 9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness (pleonexia).

Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness (pleonexia), let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Eph 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous (pleonektes) man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection,
evil concupiscence, and covetousness (pleonexia), which is idolatry:

1Th 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness (pleonexia); God [is] witness:

1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous (aphilargyros);

1Ti 6:10 For the love of money (philarguria) is the root of all evil: which while some coveted (orego) after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous (philarguros), boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Hbr 13:5 [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness (aphilarguros); [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness (pleonexia) shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous (pleonexia) practices; cursed children:

Does coveting in the OT have the same meaning as in the NT?
It looks like to me that some of the words have been altered to fit a particular item and not everything in general...

Thoughts..?

hugs
lone

atoz · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: Covet