Lexicon pragmateia: careful application, hard work Original Word: πραγματεία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: pragmateia Phonetic Spelling: (prag-mat-i'-ah) Short Definition: a business, an occupation Definition: a business, an occupation, affair, transaction. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 4230 pragmateía – a necessary daily (business) transaction.  See 4231 (pragmateuomai). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom  pragmateuomaiDefinitioncareful application, hard work NASB Translationaffairs (1). 
 Thayer's STRONGS NT 4230: πραγματείαπραγματεία ( T WH πραγματια; see Iota),  πραγματείας,  ἡ ( πραγματεύομαι), prosecution of any affair;  business, occupation: plural with the addition of  τοῦ βίου, pursuits and occupations pertaining to civil life, opposed to warfare ( A. V. the affairs of this life),  2 Timothy 2:4 (In the same and other senses in Greek writings from ( Hippocrates),  Xenophon,  Plato down.)    
 
 
 
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