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Strong's G3557 · Greek

νοσφίζω

nosphizomai · nos-fid'-zom-ahee

middle voice from nosphi (apart or clandestinely); to sequestrate for oneself, i.e. embezzle


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

νοσφίζω (G3557)

3 νοσφίζω ( νόσφι , apart , aside ), [in LXX: Jos 7:1 ( לקח ), II Mac 4:32 *;] in Hom., as depon., to turn away ( from ), abandon . After Hom., in act., to set apart , remove . Mid., to set apart for oneself , peculate , purloin : absol., Tit 2:10 (for ex. in π. , v. MM, xvii); seq. ἀπό , Ac 5:2 , 3 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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