praxias

Strong’sG4234

an action, deeds, function

stem praxi-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books4 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.

πρᾶξις, -εως, ἡ

(< πράσσω), [in LXX: II Ch 13:22 27:7 28:26 (דֶּרֶךְ), Jb 24:5 A (פֹּעַל), Pr 13:13, Wi 9:11, al.;]

1. a doing, deed, act: Mt 16:27; pl., π. ἀποσπτόλων, Ac, tit.; in late writers especially of wicked deeds or practices (freq. in Polyb.): Lk 23:51; p1., Ro 8:13, Col 3:9; with ref. to magic (v. BS, 3235), Ac 19:18.

2. an acting, action, business, function: Ro 12:4.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4234 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidprax'-is

practice, i.e. (concretely) an act; by extension, a function

Fromfrom G4238;

King Jamesdeed, office, work.

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

πρᾶξις, εως,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πρῆξις, ιος, ἡ: (πράσσω):— doing, transaction, business, [πλεῖν] κατὰ πρῆξιν on a trading voyage, Refs 8th c.BC+; π. δ᾽ ἥδ᾽ ἰδίη, οὐ δήμιος a private, not a public affair, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἡ περί τινος π. the transaction respecting.., Refs 5th c.BC+
2 result or issue of a business, especially good result, success, οὐ γάρ τις πρῆξις πέλεται.. γόοιο no good comes of weeping, Refs 8th c.BC+; λυμαίνεσθαί τινι τὴν π. to spoil one's market, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. φίλαν δίδοι grant a happy issue. Refs 5th c.BC+; ταχεῖά γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν π. their issue, Refs 5th c.BC+
II doing, τῶν ἀγαθῶν (of persons) πρήξιες Refs 6th c.BC+; achievement, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. πολεμική, πολιητική, πολιτική, Refs 5th c.BC+; action, opposed to πάθος, Refs; opposed to ἕξις, Refs; moral action, opposed to ποίησις, τέχνη, Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to ποιότης, Refs; opposed to οἱ πολιτικοὶ λόγοι, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι ὄντα τε καὶ πραττόμενα exhibited in actual life, Refs 5th c.BC+; action in drama, opposed to λόγος, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 action, exercise, χειρῶν, σκελῶν, στόματος, φωνῆς, διανοίας, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 euphemistic for sexual intercourse, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 magical operation, spell, Refs
III action, act, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.b military action, battle, Refs 2nd c.BC+
IV doing, faring well or ill, fortune, state, condition, ἀπέκλαιε.. τὴν ἑωυτοῦ π. Refs 5th c.BC+
V practical ability, π. καὶ σύνεσις Refs 2nd c.BC+
V.2 practice, i.e. trickery, treachery, ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν Refs; κατὰ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλούς, Refs
VI exaction of money, recovery of debts, arrears, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; παρὰ Ἀρτέμωνος.. ἔστω ἡ π. τοῖς δανείσασι let the lenders have an action of recovery against Artemon, Syngr. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; αἱ π. τῶν καταδικασθέντων Refs 4th c.BC+
VI.2 exaction of vengeance, retribution, βαρβάρων χάριν γάμων πρᾶξιν ὡς Ἑλλὰς λάβοι Refs 5th c.BC+
VII public office, ἡ διοικηθεῖσα π. Epist. Macrin. cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+
VIII discourse, lecture of a rhetorician or philosopher, Refs 4th c.AD+

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.

practices2×action1×deeds1×function1×what … hasdone1×

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	praxias	praxiais
object accusative	praxian2×πρᾶξιν	praxiain2×πράξεις
direct address vocative	praxiar	praxiair
of, belonging to genitive	praxiau	praxiaiu
to, for dative	praxia1×πράξει	praxiai1×πράξεσιν

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

praxistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

praxia 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.

6 occurrences, every one of them listed

praxian“function”objectaccusative singular2×

Matthew 16:27… kai tote apodōati hekasto kata tan praxian autou.… will repay each one according to what he has done.

Romans 12:4… meleim panteim ouk tan autan echatō praxian,… not all members have the same function,

praxia“action”to, fordative singular1×

Luke 23:51… ate sunkatatithorēntos ta boula kai ta praxia autoiu apo Harimathaiau polau toiu Ioudaioiu, …… not consented to their decision or action. He was from the Judean town …

praxiain“deeds”objectaccusative plural2×

Acts 19:18“practices”… pisteuarēntoiu erchole exomologorōntois kai anangelarōntois tain praxiain autoiu.… who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.

Romans 8:13… mellavō apothnēskarō, ei de pneume tain praxiain teu sōmeu thanatavō, zōevi.… Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

praxiai“practices”to, fordative plural1×

Colossians 3:9… apekduerantois ton palaion anthrōpon sun tai praxiai autou,… off the old self with its practices,