πλουτέω
to be rich
‘to be rich’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4147 appears in the Book of 1 Timothy — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Timothy
- 1 Timothy 6:9 πλουτεῖν pres act inf But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
- 1 Timothy 6:18 πλουτεῖν pres act inf that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
πλουτεω (ploutéō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to be rich.” Scripture first uses it in Luke 1:53. It turns up in 12 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Revelation, which alone accounts for 42% of its uses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4147 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 5 verses 42%
- Luke 2 verses 17%
- 1 Timothy 2 verses 17%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Johannine 5 verses · 42%
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 42%
- Revelation 5 verses · 42%
- Gospels 2 verses · 17%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Rich 2×, Were made rich 2×
- American Standard Version: Rich 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be rich 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be rich 2×, Being rich 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4147 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4147 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4147 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4147 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to be rich, to have abundance
- metaph. to be richly supplied
Word origin
Derived from πλουτιζω (ploutízō) (G4148) — to enrich.
From G4148 ; to be (or become ) wealthy (literally or figuratively): - be increased with goods (be made wax) rich.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G4147 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πλουτεῖν plouteîn | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | 1 Timothy 6:9 | 2 |
| πλουτῶν ploutō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 12:21 | 2 |
| ἐπλούτησαν eploútēsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Revelation 18:3 | 2 |
| πεπλούτηκα peploútēka | Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Revelation 3:17 | 1 |
| πλουτήσαντες ploutḗsantes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Revelation 18:15 | 1 |
| πλουτήσητε ploutḗsēte | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 8:9 | 1 |
| πλουτήσῃς ploutḗsēs | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular | Revelation 3:18 | 1 |
| πλουτοῦντας ploutoûntas | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 1:53 | 1 |
| ἐπλουτήσατε eploutḗsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 4:8 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πλουτεω appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 9 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 30:43 πλουτέω
- Exodus 30:15 πλουτέω
- Psalms 48:17 πλουτέω
- Proverbs 28:22 πλουτέω
- Ecclesiastes 5:11 πλουτέω
- Jeremiah 5:27 πλουτέω
- Daniel 11:2 πλουτέω
- Hosea 12:9 πλουτέω
- Zechariah 11:5 πλουτέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4147) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 30:43 πλουτέω The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Exodus 30:15 πλουτέω The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.
- Psalms 48:17 πλουτέω
- Proverbs 28:22 πλουτέω A stingy man hurries after riches, And doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
- Proverbs 31:28 πλουτέω Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:
- Ecclesiastes 5:11 πλουτέω When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
- Jeremiah 5:27 πλουτέω As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
- Daniel 11:2 πλουτέω Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.
- Hosea 12:9 πλουτέω "But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you to dwell in tents, As in the days of the solemn feast.
- Zechariah 11:5 πλουτέω Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4147) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
