Lexicon emporeuomai: to travel in, to traffic, by impl. to trade Original Word: ἐμπορεύομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: emporeuomai Phonetic Spelling: (em-por-yoo'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I travel as a merchant, engage in trade Definition: I travel as a merchant, engage in trade; I traffic in, make gain or business of. HELPS word-Studies 1710 emporeúomai (the root of the English term, emporium, "a place for trading") – properly, "to engage in trade" (Souter); doing business by trading; to make a gain by exchanging (bartering, investing) (A-S). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom en and poreuomaiDefinitionto travel in, to traffic, by impl. to trade NASB Translationengage in business (1), exploit (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1710: ἐμπορεύομαιἐμπορεύομαι (see ἐν, III. 3): deponent passive with future middle ἐμπορεύσομαι; (from ἔμπορος, which see); to go a trading, to travel for business, to traffic, trade ( Thucydides and following; the Sept.): James 4:13 ( Rst G here give the 1 aorist subjunctive ἐμπορευσώμεθα); with the accusative of a thing, to import for sale (as ἔλαιον εἰς Αἴγυπτον, the Sept. Hosea 12:1; πορφύραν ἀπό Φοινίκης, ( Diogenes Laërtius 7, 2; γλαυκας, Lucian, Nigrin. at the beginning); to deal in; to use a thing or a person for gain ( A. V. make merchandise of) ( ὥραν τοῦ σώματος, Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 8; Ἀσπασια ἐνεπορεύετο πλήθη γυναικῶν, Athen. 13, p. 569 f.): 2 Peter 2:3; cf. Winers Grammar, 223 (209); ( Buttmann, 147 (129)).
Strong's buy and sell, trade, make merchandise. From en and poreuomai; to travel in (a country as a pedlar), i.e. (by implication) to trade -- buy and sell, make merchandise. see GREEK en see GREEK poreuomai |
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