Lexicon emporos: a passenger on shipboard, a merchant Original Word: ἔμπορος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: emporos Phonetic Spelling: (em'-por-os) Short Definition: a merchant, trader Definition: a merchant, trader; one on a journey. HELPS word-Studies 1713 émporos (from 1722 /en, "in" and poros, "a way of passage") – a merchant using a particular venue to trade. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom en and poros (a journey) Definitiona passenger on shipboard, a merchant NASB Translationmerchant (1), merchants (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1713: ἔμποροςἔμπορος (see ἐν, III. 3), ἐμπόρου, ὁ ( πόρος); 1. equivalent to ὁ ἐπ' ἀλλοτρίας νεώς πλέων μισθοῦ, ὁ ἐπιβάτης; so Hesychius, with whom agree Phavorinus and the Schol. ad Aristophanes, Plutarch, 521; and so the word is used by Homer. 2. after Homer one on a journey, whether by sea or by land, especially for traffic; hence, 3. a merchant (opposed to κάπηλος a retailer, petty tradesman): Revelation 18:3, 11, 15, 23; ἄνθρωπος ἔμπορος (see ἄνθρωπος, 4 a.), Matthew 13:45 (WH text omits ἄνθρωπος). (the Sept. for סֹחֵד and רֹכֵל.)
Strong's merchant. From en and the base of poreuomai; a (wholesale) tradesman -- merchant. see GREEK en see GREEK poreuomai |
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