Bible Dictionary: Greediness

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.

Greek

4124. pleonexia -- advantage, covetousness
... Word Origin from pleonektes Definition advantage, covetousness NASB Word Usage
covetousness (1), deeds of coveting (1), greed (7), greediness (1). ...
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Library

"All Uncleanness with Greediness. "
... Homily V. Chapter XI.""All Uncleanness with Greediness.". "But let all
doors be opened to him, and let all baneful and arbitrary ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter xi all uncleanness with greediness.htm

When I Heard any News I Receivd it with Greediness and Delight
... THE THIRD CENTURY 25 When I heard any news I receivd it with greediness and
delight. When I heard any news I receivd it with greediness ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/25 when i heard any.htm

1 Cor. vi. 12
... As when he says, (Philip. iii.19.) "Whose God is their belly:" not speaking
about that part of the body, but about greediness. To ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xvii 1 cor vi.htm

John who was a Torch, Laid Bare and Rebuked the Wanton Ones: they ...
... R., Blessed be He Who makes thy Doctrine rich! 3. May greediness be overcome
by thy fasting even as by the fasting of Daniel! May ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xxi john who was.htm

That Our Irrational Passions have their Rise from Kindred with ...
... which breed largely by their love of pleasure; cowardice preserves the weak, fear
that which is easily taken by more powerful animals, and greediness those of ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/xviii that our irrational passions.htm

Ephesians iv. 17-19
... that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart: who being past feeling,
gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness ...
/.../homily xiii ephesians iv 17-19.htm

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Or, a Brief Relation of ...
... which also I soon forgot; for my pleasures did quickly cut off the remembrance of
them, as if they had never been: wherefore with more greediness, according to ...
/.../bunyan/grace abounding to the chief of sinners/grace abounding to the chief.htm

It is Then My Purpose to Prove to You...
... teats which now, after very long thirst, I almost exhausted and dry, have returned
to with all greediness, and with deeper weeping and groaning have shaken ...
/.../augustine/on the profit of believing /section 2 it is then.htm

Self-Examination
... But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that
cup." Paul was here writing of the abuses of greediness and drunkenness which ...
/.../smith/the god of all comfort/chapter 10 self-examination.htm

Miracles no Remedy for Unbelief.
... Those evil tempers which the people displayed in the desert, their greediness,
selfishness, murmuring, caprice, waywardness, fickleness, ingratitude, jealousy ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon vi miracles no remedy.htm

Thesaurus

Greediness (3 Occurrences)
...Greediness (3 Occurrences). ... (WEB). Ephesians 4:19 who having become callous gave
themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. ...
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Ostrich (9 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary (Lamentations 4:3), the rendering of Hebrew
pl. enim; so called from its greediness and gluttony. The ...
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Greedily (7 Occurrences)

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Greedy (24 Occurrences)

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Urge (34 Occurrences)
... to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that
the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. ...
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Owl (11 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary. (1.) Hebrews bath-haya'anah, "daughter of greediness"
or of "shouting." In the list of unclean birds (Leviticus 11:16; Deuteronomy 14 ...
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Licentiousness (10 Occurrences)
... DBY RSV). Ephesians 4:19 who having become callous gave themselves up to
lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. (See RSV). 1 ...
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Lasciviousness (9 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness,
to work all uncleanness with greediness. (KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Gorge (19 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) The groove of a pulley. 9. (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow
with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. 10. ...
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Greed (19 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed
of gain. Multi-Version Concordance Greed (19 Occurrences). ...
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Bible Concordance

Greediness (3 Occurrences)

2 Corinthians 9:5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
(WEB)

Ephesians 4:19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS)

Job 20:21 Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Greediness

Related Terms

Ostrich (9 Occurrences)

Greedily (7 Occurrences)

Greedy (24 Occurrences)

Urge (34 Occurrences)

Owl (11 Occurrences)

Licentiousness (10 Occurrences)

Lasciviousness (9 Occurrences)