Fraud - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Fraud

[ 1,,G575 G5302, aphustereo ]
to keep back, deprive" (apo, "from," hustereo, "to be lacking"), is used in James 5:4, "is kept back by fraud" (some mss. have apostereo, "to defraud"). The word is found in a papyrus writing of A.D. 42, of a bath insufficiently warmed (Moulton and Milligan, Vocab.). The Law required the prompt payment of the laborer, Deuteronomy 24:15.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words