G2585 – kapeleuo – καπηλεύω – corrupt
- Strong’s ID:
- G2585
- Greek Word:
- καπηλεύω
- Transliteration:
- kapeleuo
- Pronunciation:
- kap-ale-yoo’-o
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “kapeleuo” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from καπηλος kapelos (a huckster); to retail, i.e. (by implication) to adulterate (figuratively):—corrupt.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to be a retailer, to peddle
2) to make money by selling anything
2a) to get sordid gain by dealing in anything, to do a thing for base gain
2b) to trade in the word of God
2b1) to try to get base gain by teaching divine truth
2c) to corrupt, to adulterate
2c1) peddlers were in the habit of adulterating their commodities for the sake of gain
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.