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G2585

καπηλεύω

kapēleuō

Verb · From kapelos (a huckster)

From κάπηλος kápēlos (a huckster); to retail, i.e. (by implication) to adulterate (figuratively):—corrupt.

Outline

  1. to be a retailer, to peddle
  2. to make money by selling anything
    1. to get sordid gain by dealing in anything, to do a thing for base gain
    2. to trade in the word of God
      1. to try to get base gain by teaching divine truth
    3. to corrupt, to adulterate
      1. peddlers were in the habit of adulterating their commodities for the sake of gain

Usages

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

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