Sordid
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (a.) Filthy, foul, or dirty in character or nature; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.

2. (a.) Vile; base; gross; mean.

3. (a.) Meanly avaricious; covetous; stingy.

Greek
146. aischrokerdes -- greedy of base gain
... Word Origin from aischros and kerdos Definition greedy of base gain NASB Word Usage
fond of sordid gain (2), sordid gain (2). greedy, given to filthy lucre. ...
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150. aischros -- shameful
... disgraceful. Word Origin from the same as aischuno Definition shameful NASB
Word Usage disgraceful (2), improper (1), sordid (1). filthy. ...
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147. aischrokerdos -- from eagerness for base gain
... Word Origin adverb from aischrokerdes Definition from eagerness for base gain
NASB Word Usage sordid gain (1). for the sake of dishonest gain. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
6937. qadar -- to be dark
... A primitive root; to be ashy, ie Dark-colored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth
or sordid garments) -- be black(-ish), be (make) dark(-en), X heavily ...
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Library

And they who Keep the Commandment Ought to Keep it Without any ...
... Canon X. And they who keep the commandment ought to keep it without any
sordid covetousness? And they who keep the commandment ...
/.../thaumaturgus/canonical epistle of gregory thaumaturgus/canon x and they who.htm

Profit and Loss
... They sing just as we have been singing". "Jewels to thee are gaudy toys,.
And gold is sordid dust.". And so they are compared with ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/profit and loss.htm

Ancient Civilisation {5} {6}
... instead of sinking to the mere selfish standard which judges all things, even those
of the world to come, by profit and by loss, and into that sordid frame of ...
/.../kingsley/historical lectures and essays/ancient civilisation 5 6.htm

Ancient Civilisation.
... instead of sinking to the mere selfish standard which judges all things, even those
of the world to come, by profit and by loss, and into that sordid frame of ...
/.../lectures delivered in america in 1874/lecture v ancient civilisation.htm

Conclusion. Clue to the Error of the Jews.
... [1461] First, He was clad in "sordid attire," that is, in the indignity of passible
and mortal flesh, when the devil, withal, was opposing himself to Him"the ...
/.../tertullian/an answer to the jews/chapter xiv conclusion clue to the.htm

How one Should Resist Temptations and Bear Trials
... Even if they are blasphemies and sordid, hold firmly on to this fact in everything,
that you can do nothing better or more effective against them than to ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/albert/on cleaving to god/chapter 11 how one should.htm

Sunday after Ascension Day
... in this vice, until the bodies and lives of her people, as well as their property
and honor, are shamefully consumed and only a sordid existence remains. ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/sunday after ascension day.htm

Of Flattery.
... Tis indeed a Collective, accumulative Baseness, its being in its Elements a compound
and a complex of the most sordid, hateful qualities incident to Mankind. ...
/.../allestree/the government of the tongue/section viii of flattery.htm

The Traitor
... it comes that religion without devotion is the mockery of honest worldlings; that
hypocrisy goes so constantly with the meanest and most sordid lust of gain ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 14 10-16 the traitor.htm

Felicitous Phrases
... mean, pitiful, and sordid. meek, humane, and temperate. ... new, strange, and unusual.
stingy, sordid, and parsimonious [grudging, wretched and frugal]. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iii felicitous phrases.htm

Thesaurus
Sordid (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Filthy, foul, or dirty in character or nature;
as, vulgar, sordid mortals. ... Multi-Version Concordance Sordid (4 Occurrences). ...
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Iscariot (11 Occurrences)
... ostensibly one of the faithful. Personal motives of a sordid nature had also
influence in causing him to remain. Appointed keeper of the ...
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Sorcery (10 Occurrences)

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Judas (42 Occurrences)
... ostensibly one of the faithful. Personal motives of a sordid nature had also
influence in causing him to remain. Appointed keeper of the ...
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Jephthah (26 Occurrences)
... The father's sorrow and the courage of the daughter are the only bright lights on
this sordid, cruel conception of God and of the nature of sacrifice. ...
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Dirty (9 Occurrences)
... dirty white. 2. (superl.) Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. 3. (superl.)
Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. 4. (superl ...
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Miserly (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; stingy.
Multi-Version Concordance Miserly (1 Occurrence). ...
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Sore (156 Occurrences)

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Resources
Why did David ask God to “create in me a clean heart” in Psalm 51:10? | GotQuestions.org

What should we learn from the account of Samson and Delilah? | GotQuestions.org

What did David mean when he asked God to “restore to me the joy of your salvation” (Psalm 51:12)? | GotQuestions.org

Sordid: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance
Sordid (4 Occurrences)

1 Timothy 3:8
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;
(See NAS)

Titus 1:7
For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
(See NAS)

Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.
(WBS NAS)

1 Peter 5:2
Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
(See NAS)

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Sore (156 Occurrences)

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