καπηλεύω; (κάπηλος, i. e. a. an inn-keeper, especially a vintner; b. a petty retailer, a huckster, pedler; cf. Sir_26:29 οὐ δικαιωθήσεται κάπηλος ἀπό ἁμαρτίας); a. to be a retailer, to peddle; b. with the accusative of the thing, "to make money by selling anything; to get sordid gain by dealing in anything, to do a thing for base gain" (οἱ τά μαθήματα περιαγοντες κατά πόλεις καί πωλοῦντες καί καπηλεύοντες, Plato, Prot., p. 313 d.; μάχην, Aeschylus the Sept. 551 (545); Latincauponari bellum, i. e. to fight for gain, trade in war, Ennius quoted in Cicero, offic. 1, 12, 38; ἑταιραν τό τῆς ὥρας ἄνθος καπηλευουσαν, Philo de caritat. § 14, cf. leg. ad Gaium § 30, and many other examples in other authors). Hence, some suppose that καπηλεύειν τόν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ in 2Co_2:17 is equivalent to to trade in the word of God, i. e. to try to get base gain by teaching divine truth. But as pedlers were in the habit of adulterating their commodities for the sake of gain (οἱ κάπηλοί σου μίσγουσι τόν οἶνον ὕδατι, Isa_1:22 the Sept.; κάπηλοί, οἱ τόν οἶνον κεραννύντες, Pollux, onomast. 7, 193; οἱ φιλοσοφοι ἀποδιδονται τά μαθήματα, ὥσπερ οἱ κάπηλοί, κερασάμενοι γέ οἱ πολλοί καί δολωσαντες καί κακομετρουντες, Lucian. Hermot. 59), καπηλεύειν τί was also used as synonymous with to corrupt, to adulterate (Themistius, or. 21, p. 247, Hard. edition says that the false philosophers τό θειοτατον τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἀγαθῶν κιβδηλεύειν τέ καί αἰσχύνειν καί καπηλεύειν); and most interpreters rightly decide in favor of this meaning (on account of the context) in 2Co_2:17, cf. δολουν τόν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ, 2Co_4:2. (Cf. Trench, § lxii.)

καπηλεύω kapēleuō 1x pr. to be κάπηλος , a retailer; to peddle with; to corrupt, adulterate, 2Co_2:17

* καπηλεύω ( < κάπηλος , a huckster , cf. Isa_1:22 ( LXX ), Sir_26:29 ), to make a trade of ( RV , mg ., make merchandise of ), or perhaps ( cf. Isa, l.c .) to corrupt ( RV , tit.): 2Co_2:17 .†

καπηλεύω [page 321] This verb is confined in Biblical Greek to 2Co_2:17 , where the meaning deal in for purposes of gain rather than adulterate may be illustrated from BGU IV. 1024 vii. 23 (end of iv/A.D. : Archiv iii. p. 302) with reference to a harlot ὅτι [τὸν μ ]ὲν βίον ἀσεμνῶς διῆγεν , τὸ δὲ τε̣[λος . . ]μ̣ως ν̣υ̣π̣ε̣ριον ἐκαπήλευσεν . See also the rebuke addressed by Apollonius of Tyana to Euphrates Vita Apoll. i. 13 ἀπῆγε τοῦ χρηματίζεσθαί τε καὶ τὴν σοφίαν καπηλεύειν , tried to wean him of his love of filthy lucre and of huckstering his wisdom (Conybeare), and the use of καπηλικός = mercenary in M. Anton. iv. 28. The verb is used = trade, sell, in Michel 594 .16 (B.C. 279) τῶν οἰκημάτων ἐν οἷς Ἔφεσος καπηλεύει , and for the subst. κάπηλος , dealer, huckster (cf. Isa_1:22 , Sir_26:29 ), especially with reference to a retailer of wine, see P Tebt II. 612 (i/ii A.D.) καπήλων Τεβτύνεως διὰ τῶν οἰνοπρατῶν ἑκάστ (ου ) (δραχμαὶ ) η̄ . For the fem. καπηλίς , see P Fay 12 .23 ( c. B.C. 103), and for καπηλεῖον , inn, tavern, see P Tebt I. 43 .16 (B.C. 118). Cf. MGr καπηλειό , retail shop.

καπηλεύω κα^πηλεύω, φυτ. -εύσω [Etym: κάπηλος] "to be a retail-dealer", Hdt. ; δι᾽ ἀψύχου βορᾶς σίτοις καπήλευ᾽ "drive a trade, chaffer" with your vegetable food, Eur. c. acc. "to sell by retail", Hdt. :—metaph., καπηλεύειν μάχην "to make a trade" of war, Lat. cauponari bellum, Aesch. ; καπηλεύουσα τὸν βίον "playing tricks with" life, "corrupting" it, Anth. ; κ. τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ NTest.

καπηλεύω (κάπηλος, a huckster, cf. Isa.1:22 (LXX), Sir.26:29) to make a trade of (RV, mg., make merchandise of), or perhaps (cf. Isa, l.with) to corrupt (RV, tit.): 2Co.2:17.† (AS)