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To traffic in

ἐμπορεύομαιStrong’s G1710

emporeuomai

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Emporeuomai is the Greek word usually translated “trade” and “exploit”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
2 Peter 2:3 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “trade” and “exploit”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • will trade 1
  • they will exploit 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • James 1
  • 2 Peter 1

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary

ἐμπορεύομαι emporeuomai · to traffic in

ἐμ-πορεύομαι depon. (ἔμπορος), [in LXX chiefly for סָחַר ;] 1. to travel, esp. for business. 2. to traffc, trade: Jas.4:13. 3. C. accusative of thing(s) (a) to traffic in; (b) to import: (Hos.12:1, for יָבַל hoph.). 4. C. accusative of person(s), to make a gain of: 2Pe.2:3.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “trade” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TRADE, noun

[Latin tracto, to handle, use, treat.]

  1. The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter; or the business of buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills or money.
  2. The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence or for profit; occupation; particularly, mechanical employment; distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture.
  3. Business pursued; occupation; in contempt; as, piracy is their trade
  4. Instruments of any occupation.
All definitions and other forms of “trade”
  1. Employment not manual; habitual exercise.
  2. Custom; habit; standing practice.
  3. Men engaged in the same occupation.

TRADE, verb intransitive

To barter, or to buy and sell; to deal in the exchange, purchase or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or any thing else; to traffic; to carry on commerce as a business. Thus American merchants trade with the English at London and at Liverpool; they trade with the French at Havre and Bordeaux, and they trade with Canada. The country shopkeepers trade with London merchants. Our banks are permitted to trade in bills of exchange.

  1. To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance.
  2. To act merely for money.
  3. To have a trade wind.

TRADE, verb transitive

To sell or exchange in commerce.

  1. “They traded the persons of men” Ezekiel 27:13

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.