Lexicon emporion: a trading place Original Word: ἐμπόριον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: emporion Phonetic Spelling: (em-por'-ee-on) Short Definition: market, market-house Definition: a place of traffic, mart, market, market-house. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1712 empórion – an emporium; a marketplace for trading (doing commerce), used only in Jn 2:16 (see also Lk 19:13). See 1713 (emporia). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originneut. from emporosDefinitiona trading place NASB Translationbusiness (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1712: ἐμπόριονἐμπόριον (see ἐν, III. 3), ἐμπορίου, τό ( ἔμπορος), a place where trade is carried on, especially a seaport; a mart, emporium; ( Pliny, forumnundinarium): οἶκος ἐμπορίου a market house (epexegetical genitive ( Winers Grammar, § 59, 8 a.; A. V. a house of merchandise)), John 2:16. (From Herodotus down; the Sept..)
Strong's a market Neuter from emporos; a mart ("emporium") -- merchandise. see GREEK emporos |
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