Original Word: ἐμπορεύομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: emporeuomai
Phonetic Spelling: (em-por-yoo'-om-ahee)
Short Definition: I travel as a merchant, engage in trade
Definition: I travel as a merchant, engage in trade; I traffic in, make gain or business of.

1710 emporeúomai (the root of the English term, emporium, "a place for trading") – properly, "to engage in trade" (Souter); doing business by trading; to make a gain by exchanging (bartering, investing) (A-S).

STRONGS NT 1710: ἐμπορεύομαι

ἐμπορεύομαι (see ἐν, III. 3): deponent passive with future middle ἐμπορεύσομαι; (from ἔμπορος, which see); to go a trading, to travel for business, to traffic, trade (Thucydides and following; the Sept.): James 4:13 (Rst G here give the 1 aorist subjunctive ἐμπορευσώμεθα); with the accusative of a thing, to import for sale (as ἔλαιον εἰς Αἴγυπτον, the Sept. Hosea 12:1; πορφύραν ἀπό Φοινίκης, (Diogenes Laërtius 7, 2; γλαυκας, Lucian, Nigrin. at the beginning); to deal in; to use a thing or a person for gain (A. V. make merchandise of) (ὥραν τοῦ σώματος, Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 8; Ἀσπασια ἐνεπορεύετο πλήθη γυναικῶν, Athen. 13, p. 569 f.): 2 Peter 2:3; cf. Winers Grammar, 223 (209); (Buttmann, 147 (129)).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

buy and sell, trade, make merchandise.

From en and poreuomai; to travel in (a country as a pedlar), i.e. (by implication) to trade -- buy and sell, make merchandise.

see GREEK en

see GREEK poreuomai

Forms and Transliterations

εμπορεύεσθε εμπορευέσθωσαν εμπορευομένη εμπορευομένων εμπορεύονταί εμπορευσομεθα εμπορευσόμεθα ἐμπορευσόμεθα εμπορευσονται ἐμπορεύσονται εμπορευσώμεθα ενεπορεύετο ενεπορεύοντό emporeusometha emporeusómetha emporeusontai emporeúsontai

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