noun · feminine
emporias
Strong’sG1711
trading, trade, trafficking, business
stem empori-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἐμπορία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἔμπορος), [in LXX for סָחַר, רָכַל etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1711 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidem-por-ee'-ah
traffic
Fromfeminine from G1713;
King Jamesmerchandise.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (ἔμπορος) commerce (accusative to Refs 4th c.BC+, mostly used of commerce or trade by sea Refs 8th c.BC+; κατ᾽ ἐμπορίην, Attic dialect -ίαν, for trade-purposes, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐμπορίας ἕνεκα or -κεν, Refs 5th c.BC+; περὶ τὰς ἐ. διατρίβειν Refs 4th c.BC+
2 a trade or business, NT+6th c.AD+
3 errand, business, Refs 5th c.BC+; journeying, πενία ἀζημίωτος ἐ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
II merchandise, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμπορίᾳ ἢν ἦγεν ἐν τῇ.. νηΐ Test. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | emporias | emporiais |
| object accusative | emporian1×ἐμπορίαν | emporiain |
| direct address vocative | emporiar | emporiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | emporiau | emporiaiu |
| to, for dative | emporia | emporiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
emporia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
emporian“business”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 22:5… idion agron, hos de epi tan emporian autou;… to his field, another to his business.