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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Luxury
Dictionaries
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Luxury
Webster Dictionary
• Luxury
• Luxurious
• Luxuries
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Encyclopedias
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Luxury
Lexicons
• ܐܳܣܽܘܛܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܐܶܣܛܪܰܢܺܝܰܐ
• ܒ݁ܽܘܣܳܡܳܐ
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• λιπαρός
• τρυφάω
• τρυφή
• בָּקַק , בָּקַק
• עֵדֶן , עֶדְנָה
• עֹנֶג
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Trench's NT Synonyms
• Live in Luxury and Pleasure

a disposition of mind addicted to pleasure, riot, and superfluities. Luxury implies a giving one's self up to pleasure; voluptuousness, an indulgence in the same to excess. Luxury may be further considered as consisting in,

1. Vain and useless expenses;

2. In a parade beyond what people can afford;

3. In affecting to be above our own rank;

4. In living in a splendor that does not agree with the public good. In order to avoid it, we should consider that i is ridiculous, troublesome, sinful, and ruinous. See Robinson's Claude, 1:382; Ferguson, On Society, part 6, section 2; Buck, Theological Dictionary, s.v.