πλεονεξία

Mark 7:22 πλεονεξίαι, covetous desires,

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Here: Also plural: acts of grasping for more than your share, usually at someone else's expense. It covers both the hunger for more and the grabbing that follows.

Luke 12:15 πλεονεξίας, covetousness,

And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Here: Literally 'having-more-ness': the drive to get more than you have, or more than your share. This is the key word of the verse (see studies).

Romans 1:29 πλεονεξίᾳ, covetousness,

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Here: Literally 'having-more-ness': the drive to get more than one's share, usually at someone else's expense. Greek moralists treated it as the root of injustice, so it sits naturally next to adikia.

2 Corinthians 9:5 πλεονεξίαν. covetousness.

So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you beforehand and make arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. This way, your gift will be prepared generously and not begrudgingly.

Here: Literally 'having-more-ness': the grasping that takes or keeps more than its share. Here it describes a gift shaped by greed. It could be a grudging gift held back by the giver's greed, or a sum squeezed out of them that would look like the collectors' greed. Scholars read it both ways.

Ephesians 4:19 πλεονεξίᾳ.¶ greediness.

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

Here: Literally 'having-more-ness': the hunger to get more than one's share, usually at someone else's expense. It closes the verse with the insatiable, exploiting quality of the whole way of life.

Ephesians 5:3 πλεονεξία covetousness

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Here: Literally 'having more': the grasping urge to get more than your share, usually at someone else's expense. Next to sexual sins it may include sexual greed, but in 5:5 the greedy person is called an idolater.

Colossians 3:5 πλεονεξίαν covetousness

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Here: Literally "having-more-ness": the grasping urge always to have more, usually at someone else's expense.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 πλεονεξίας, for greed —

As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!

Here: Literally 'having-more-ness'. It means the drive to get more for yourself at someone else's expense: money, gifts, hospitality, influence, or use of people. Here it is the hidden motive a con-man preacher would cover with fine speech.

2 Peter 2:3 πλεονεξίᾳ covetousness

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Here: The urge to have more than your share, usually at someone else's expense. It names their underlying motive, and the letter comes back to it in 2:14 ('hearts trained in greed').

2 Peter 2:14 πλεονεξίας in craving

Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

Here: "In greed": the urge to have more, usually at someone else's expense. Here it points especially to profiting from their followers (2:3) the way Balaam did (2:15).