noun · feminine
emporias
Greekἐμπορία (emporia)
Strong’sG1711
trading, trade, trafficking, business
stem empori-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
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.
Every form
| 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
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
emporian“business”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 22:5“business”tois de amelaratois aperchala, hos men eis ton idion agron, hos de epi tan emporian autou;But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.