harmful
Blaberos describes desires in 1 Timothy 6:9 that lead people toward ruin and destruction.
Its sole attested use qualifies desires that, in the verse’s warning about pursuing wealth, are associated with people being plunged into ruin and destruction.
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Desires leading toward ruin · dominant
In 1 Timothy 6:9, βλαβεράς is an accusative plural feminine adjective modifying desires within the warning that those desiring wealth fall into temptation, a snare, and many such desires. The APB renders the clause “many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Timothy 6:9, the APB presents the adjective within “many foolish and harmful desires”; That wording is treated as the clause’s rendering rather than a precise lexical equation.