Strong’s G3557 · Greek
νοσφίζομαι
nosphízomai · nos-fid'-zom-ahee
Origin middle voice from νοσφί (apart or clandestinely);
Meaning to sequestrate for oneself, i.e. embezzle
In the King James Version keep back, purloin.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 5:2And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
- Acts 5:3But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
- Titus 2:10Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
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.