Fraud
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"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 .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) A trap or snare.
(2): ( n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
(3): ( n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
King James Dictionary [3]
Fraud n. L. fraus.
Deceit deception trick artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured a stratagem intended to obtain some undue advantage an attempt to gain or the obtaining of an advantage over another by imposition or immoral means, particularly deception in contracts, or bargain and sale, either by stating falsehoods, or suppressing truth.
If success a lover's toil attends, who asks if force or fraud obtained his ends.
