Strong’s G2771 · Greek
κέρδος
kérdos · ker'-dos
Origin of uncertain affinity;
Meaning gain (pecuniary or genitive case)
In the King James Version gain, lucre.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Philippians 1:21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
- Philippians 3:7But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
- Titus 1:11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.