“to practice,” has the special meaning “extort” in Luk 3:13<\/span>, RV (AV, “exact”). In Luk 19:23<\/span> it is translated “required;” it may be that the master, in addressing the slothful servant, uses the word “extort” or “exact” (as in Luk 3:13<\/span>), in accordance with the character attributed to him by the servant. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n denotes “pillage, plundering, robbery, extortion” (akin to harpazo, “to seize, carry off by force,” and harpagmos, “a thing seized, or the act of seizing;” from the root arp—, seen in Eng., “rapacious;” an associated noun, with the same spelling, denoted a rake, or hook for drawing up a bucket); it is translated “extortion” in Mat 23:25<\/span>; Luk 11:39<\/span>, RV, AV, “ravening;” Heb 10:34<\/span>, “spoiling.” See RAVENING, SPOILING. Cp. C. below. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “covetousness, desire for advantage,” is rendered “extortion” in 2Co 9:5<\/span>, RV, (AV and RV marg., “covetousness”). See COVET. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “rapacious” (akin to No. 1), is translated as a noun, “extortioners,” in Luk 18:11<\/span>; 1Co 5:10-11<\/span>; 1Co 6:10<\/span>; in Mat 7:15<\/span> “ravening” (of wolves). In the Sept., Gen 49:27<\/span>. <\/p>\n Extort, Extortion, Extortioner “to practice,” has the special meaning “extort” in Luk 3:13, RV (AV, “exact”). In Luk 19:23 it is translated “required;” it may be that the master, in addressing the slothful servant, uses the word “extort” or “exact” (as in Luk 3:13), in accordance with the character attributed to him by the servant. … Continue reading “Extort, Extortion, Extortioner”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"