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Note:
In 1 Cor. 11:4, “having his head covered” is, lit., “having (something) down the
head.”
B. Nouns.
1.
(
$
, 4018) lit. denotes “something thrown around” ( ,
“around,”
, “to throw”); hence, “a veil, covering,” 1 Cor. 11:15 (marg.), or “a mantle
around the body, a vesture,” Heb. 1:12. See
CLOTHING
, Note (1),
VESTURE
.¶
2.
(
!
, 4629), “a covering” (
, “to cover”), strictly, “a
roofing,” then, “any kind of shelter or covering,” is used in the plural in 1 Tim. 6:8 (
KJV
,
“raiment”;
RV
, “covering”).¶
COVET, COVETOUS, COVETOUSNESS
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
#
!
, 1937), “to fix the desire upon” ( , “upon,” used
intensively,
$
, “passion”), whether things good or bad; hence, “to long for, lust
after, covet,” is used with the meaning “to covet evilly” in Acts 20:33, of “coveting
money and apparel”; so in Rom. 7:7; 13:9. See
DESIRE
,
FAIN
,
LUST
.
2.
(
, 2206) is rendered “covet earnestly,” in 1 Cor. 12:31,
KJV
;
RV
,
“desire earnestly,” as in 14:39 (
KJV
“covet”). See
AFFECT
,
DESIRE
,
ENVY
,
JEALOUS
,
ZEALOUS
.
3.
(
A$!
, 3713), “to stretch after,” is rendered “covet after” in 1 Tim. 6:10,
KJV
;
RV
. “reaching after.” See
DESIRE
,
REACH
.
B. Nouns.
1.
$
(
#
)
, 1938), “a luster after” (akin to A, No. 1), is translated in
1 Cor. 10:6, in verbal form, “should not lust after.” See
LUST
.¶
2.
$
(
#
&
, 1939) denotes “coveting,” Rom. 7:7-8,
RV
;
KJV
, “lust” and
“con cupiscence”; the commandment here referred to convicted him of sinfulness in his
desires for unlawful objects besides that of gain. See
DESIRE
,
LUST
.
3.
@
(
&
, 4124), “covetousness,” lit., “a desire to have more” (
,
“more,”
, “to have”), always in a bad sense, is used in a general way in Mark 7:22
(plural, lit., “covetings,” i.e., various ways in which “covetousness” shows itself); Rom.
1:29; Eph. 5:3; 1 Thess. 2:5. Elsewhere it is used, (a) of material possessions, Luke
12:15; 2 Pet. 2:3; 2 Cor. 9:5 (
RV
, “extortion”), lit., “as (a matter of) extortion” i.e., a gift
which betrays the giver’s unwillingness to bestow what is due; (b) of sensuality, Eph.
4:19, “greediness”; Col. 3:5 (where it is called “idolatry”); 2 Pet. 2:14 (
KJV
, “covetous
practices”). See
EXTORTION
.¶
Note:
Cf. the corresponding verb
, “to gain, take advantage of wrong.” See
ADVANTAGE
,
DEFRAUD
,
GAIN
, B,
Note
(2),
WRONG
C. Adjectives.
1.
(
!
, 4123), lit., “(eager) to have more” (see B, No. 3), i.e., to
have what belongs to others; hence, “greedy of gain, covetous,” 1 Cor. 5:10-11; 6:10;
Eph. 5:5 (“covetous man”).¶