noun · masculine
emporos
Strong’sG1713
a merchant, trader
stem empor-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ἔμ-πορος, -ου, ὁ
(< πόρος, a journey), [in LXX chiefly for סָחַר, רָכַל;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1713 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
one who goes on ship-board as a passenger, Refs 8th c.BC+
II = ὁ ἐν πόρῳ ὤν, wayfarer, traveller, Refs 5th c.BC+
III merchant, trader, Refs 7th c.BC+; distinguished from the retail-dealer (κάπηλος) by his making voyages and importing goods himself, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. βίου a trafficker in life, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὥρης ἔ. a dealer in beauty, Refs 1st c.AD+
III.2 as adjective, ={ἐμπορικός, ναῦς ἔ}. Refs 1st 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 | emporos | emporois4×ἔμποροι |
| object accusative | emporon | emporoin |
| direct address vocative | emporor | emporoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | emporou | emporoiu |
| to, for dative | emporo1×ἐμπόρῳ | emporoi |
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
emporo 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
emporo“merchant”to, fordative singular1×
Matthew 13:45… atō tas basileias toiu ouranoiu anthrōpo emporo zētarōnto kaloin margaritoin;… kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.
emporois“merchants”subjectnominative plural4×
Revelation 18:3… gēau meta autau porneuala, kai tois emporois tau gēau ek tau dunamiau teu …… were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy …
Revelation 18:11Kai tois emporois tau gēau klaialō kai penthalō epi …And the merchants of the earth will weep and …
Revelation 18:15tois emporois houteiu, tois ploutarantois apo autau, apo …The merchants who sold these things and gained …
Revelation 18:23… akouiteia en si ēti; hoti tois emporois su ale tois megistanois tau gēau, …… out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the …