πλησίον

πλησίος, -α, -ον

(πέλας, near),

near, close by, neighbouring. As adv., πλησίον = πέλας, near: with genitive, Joh 4,5 with art., ὁ π., one's neigh­bour

[in LXX chiefly for רֵעַ ]:

Luk 10,29, 36, ApG 7,27, Rom 13,10; 15,2, Ef 4,25, Jak 4,12; ἀγαπήσεις τὸν π. σου ὡς σεαυτόν (3 Mos 19,18, LXX), Matt 5,43; 19,19; 22,39, Mark 12,31, 33, Luk 10,27, Rom 13,9, Gal 5,14, Jak 2,8 (on the various senses of ὁ π. in OT, NT, see DB, iii, 511; DCC, ii, 240 f.).†