rapacious
harpax describes people characterized in these verses as rapacious, including those likened to wolves inwardly.
The attested use describes people marked by rapacious conduct: it occurs in lists of persons excluded from association or inheritance and in a warning that false prophets are inwardly like rapacious wolves.
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People marked by rapacious conduct · dominant
The nominative plural form identifies groups or persons in 1 Corinthians 6:10 and Luke 18:11, where the APB renders them among morally condemned people as “rapacious ones” and “rapacious.” In 1 Corinthians 5:10 and 1 Corinthians 5:11, the plural dative and singular nominative occur in lists that frame such a person as someone with whom association is restricted; in Matthew 7:15, the nominative plural describes wolves as the inward comparison for false prophets.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “rapacious,” “rapacious ones,” and “rapacious wolves” across these verses. These renderings confirm the clauses' portrayal without establishing finer distinctions.