pragmateuomai: to busy oneself Original Word: πραγματεύομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: pragmateuomai
Phonetic Spelling: (prag-mat-yoo'-om-ahee)
Short Definition: I transact business, trade
Definition: I transact business, trade.
4231 pragmateúomai (from 4229 /prágma, "a necessary matter, what is pragmatic") – properly, the ancient mercantile term for trading (exchanging) to make gain, i.e. to do business (barter etc.); trading, exchanging (leveraging) one thing for another to make a legitimate gain; (figuratively) "to bear much fruit" (cf. Jn 15:2f), i.e. the opposite of being fruitless because refusing to make trades by "playing it safe." 4231 (pragmateuomai) means "turning something over," making a good trade – i.e. "to good account . . . to administrate, manage profitably the capital at your disposal" (C. Spicq, 3, 151). [See also 4230 /pragmateía ("trades") – i.e. exchanges negotiated and transacted as business (personal or official).] Word Origin
from pragma
Definition
to busy oneself
NASB Word Usage
do business (1).NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries
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All rights reserved Lockman.org trade, do businessFrom pragma; to busy oneself with, i.e. To trade -- occupy. see GREEK pragma
πόδες — 7 Occ.
ποδῶν — 19 Occ.
ποδός — 1 Occ.
ποσὶν — 5 Occ.
πούς — 3 Occ.
πρᾶγμα — 3 Occ.
πράγματι — 3 Occ.
πραγμάτων — 4 Occ.
πράγματος — 1 Occ.
πραγματείαις — 1 Occ.
πραιτωρίῳ — 2 Occ.
πραιτώριον — 6 Occ.
πράκτωρ — 1 Occ.
πράκτορι — 1 Occ.
πράξει — 1 Occ.
πράξεις — 2 Occ.
πράξεσιν — 1 Occ.
πρᾶξιν — 2 Occ.
πρασιαὶ — 2 Occ.
ἔπραξα — 1 Occ.
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