Fraud

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"to keep back, deprive" (apo, "from," hustereo, "to be lacking"), is used in Jam 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, Deu 24:15.