Strong's Greek Concordance

G1710: ἐμπορεύομαι

emporeúomai · “to traffic in”

Definition

to travel in (a country as a pedlar), i.e. (by implication) to trade

KJV translates it as: buy and sell, make merchandise

Word origin: from G1722 (ἐν) and G4198 (πορεύομαι);

Extended definition

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)

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How G1710 is translated

  • will trade ×1
  • they will exploit, ×1

Bible verses with G1710 (emporeúomai)

Emporeúomai appears in 2 verses.

  • James 4:13

    Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

  • 2 Peter 2:3

    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.