apostereō (to defraud)

Meaning

Usually translated “shall you defraud”, “defrauded” and “defraud”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

shall you defraud 1
be defrauded 1
defraud 1
do deprive 1
defrauded 1
kept back 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

1 Corinthians 3
Mark 1
1 Timothy 1
James 1

4 books in all.

Related words

To extort (sukophanteō)

Explore in Scripture

Mark 10:19Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
1 Corinthians 6:7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
1 Corinthians 6:8Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
1 Corinthians 7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
James 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Greek dictionary

ἀποστερέω apostereō · to defraud

ἀπο-στερέω, -ῶ (στερέω, to rob), [in LXX: Exo.21:10 (גָּרַע), Deu.24:14 (עָשַׁק), Mal.3:5, Sir.4:1 29:6-7 31:21-22 * ;] to defraud, deprive of, despoil (in cl. chiefly of the misappropriation of trust funds, Field, Notes, 33; cf. MM, see word): absol., Mrk.10:19, 1Co.6:8; with accusative of person(s), 1Co.7:5. Mid., endure deprivation: 1Co.6:7 (WM, § 38, 3; but see Bl., § 54, 5; M, Pr., 162); pass., ἀπεστερημένοι, bereft of: 1Ti.6:5.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “defraud” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DEFRAUD, verb transitive

[Latin To cheat.]

To deprive of right, either by obtaining something by deception or artifice, or by taking something wrongfully without the knowledge or consent of the owner; to cheat; to cozen; followed by of before the thing taken; as, to defraud; a man of his right.“We have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man” 2 Corinthians 7:2
To withhold wrongfully from another what is due to him. defraud not the hireling of his wages.
To prevent one wrongfully from obtaining what he may justly claim.
To defeat or frustrate wrongfully.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.