Diaseio denotes the prohibited act of obtaining money from someone through coercive pressure.

Its sole attested use concerns taking money from another by coercive means, prohibited in an instruction addressed to soldiers.

1. Coercively obtaining money · dominant

   In Luke 3:14, the aorist active subjunctive plural form occurs in a prohibition addressed to soldiers. The APB renders the instruction, "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation," placing the action within coercive demands for money.

   Luke 3:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Luke 3:14, the APB presents the prohibited action as "extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation." The precise division of that English clause among the original terms cannot be established from the rendering alone.