a striker, one apt to strike; a quarrelsome, violent person, 1 Tim. 3:3; Tit. 1:7*

optative, πληθύναι (3 sg), trans. to multiply, cause to increase, augment, 2 Cor. 9:10; Heb. 6:14; pass. to be multiplied, increase, be accumulated, Mt. 24:12; Acts 6:7; 7:17; intrans. to multiply, increase, be augmented, Acts 6:1

fullness, amplitude, magnitude; a multitude, a great number, Lk. 1:10; 2:13; 5:6; a multitude, a crowd, throng, Mk. 3:7, 8; Lk. 6:17

a blow, stroke, stripe, Lk. 10:30; 12:48; meton. a wound, Acts 16:33; Rev. 13:3, 12, 14; from the Hebrew, a plague, affliction, calamity, Rev. 9:20; 11:6

to sail, Lk. 8:23; Acts 21:3; 27:2, 6, 24; Rev. 18:17*

pr. a rib; the side of the body, Jn. 19:34; 20:20, 25, 27; Acts 12:7*

some advantage which one possesses over another; an inordinate desire of riches, covetousness, Lk. 12:15; grasping, overreaching, extortion, Rom. 1:29; 1 Thess.

one who has, or claims to have more than his share; a covetous, avaricious person, one who defrauds for the sake of gain, 1 Cor. 5:10, 11; 6:10; Eph. 5:5*

to have more, than another; to take advantage of; to overreach, make gain of, 2 Cor. 7:2; 12:17, 18; to wrong, 1 Thess. 4:6; to get the better, or an advantage of, 2 Cor. 2:11*

to be more than enough; to have more than enough, to have in abundance, 2 Cor. 8:15; to abound, be abundant, 2 Thess. 1:3; 2 Pet. 1:8; to increase, be augmented, Rom.