ἐμπορεύομαι
to trade
‘to trade’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1710 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
James 1 verse
2 Peter 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
εμπορευομαι (emporeúomai) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to trade.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in James, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Debuting at James 4:13, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1710 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Buy and sell 1×, Make merchandise 1×
- American Standard Version: Make merchandise 1×, Shall they 1×, Trade 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Carry on business 1×, Will exploit 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: They will exploit 1×, Trade 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1710 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1710 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1710 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1710 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to go a trading, to travel for business, to traffic, trade
- of a thing, to import for sale
- to deal in
- to use a person or a thing for gain
Word origin
Derived from εν (en) (G1722).
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1710 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐμπορευσόμεθα emporeusómetha | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | James 4:13 | 1 |
| ἐμπορεύσονται emporeúsontai | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | 2 Peter 2:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1710, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εγγραφω engráphō G1449 to inscribe
- εγγυος éngyos G1450 surety
- εγκαθετος enkáthetos G1455 to spy
- εγκαινια enkaínia G1456 dedication
- εγκαλεω enkaléō G1458 to accuse
- εγκαταλειπω enkataleípō G1459 to abandon
- εγκατοικεω enkatoikéō G1460 to dwell
- εγκεντριζω enkentrízō G1461 to graft
- εγκομβοομαι enkombóomai G1463 band
- εγκοπτω enkóptō G1465 to hinder
- εγκρατης enkratḗs G1468 strong
- εγκρινω enkrínō G1469 to judge worthy
- εγκρυπτω enkrýptō G1470 to conceal
- εγκυος énkyos G1471 pregnant
- εγχριω enchríō G1472 to anoint
- ελλογεω ellogéō G1677 impute
- εμβαινω embaínō G1684 to enter
- εμβαλλω embállō G1685 to cast in
- εμβαπτω embáptō G1686 to dip in
- εμβατευω embateúō G1687 to enter
- εμβιβαζω embibázō G1688 to lead in
- εμβλεπω emblépō G1689 to look at
- εμβριμαομαι embrimáomai G1690 to warn sternly
- εμμαινομαι emmaínomai G1693 to rage against
+58 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 84 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εμπορευομαι appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 6 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 34:10 ἐνπορεύομαι
- 2 Chronicles 1:16 ἐνπορεύομαι
- Proverbs 3:14 ἐνπορεύομαι
- Ezekiel 27:13 ἐνπορεύομαι
- Hosea 12:2 ἐνπορεύομαι
- Amos 8:6 ἐνπορεύομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1710) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 34:10 ἐνπορεύομαι You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
- Genesis 34:21 ἐνπορεύομαι "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
- Genesis 42:34 ἐνπορεύομαι Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
- 2 Chronicles 1:16 ἐνπορεύομαι The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.
- 2 Chronicles 9:14 ἐνπορεύομαι besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
- Proverbs 3:14 ἐνπορεύομαι For her good profit is better than getting silver, And her return is better than fine gold.
- Proverbs 31:14 ἐνπορεύομαι She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.
- Ezekiel 27:13 ἐνπορεύομαι Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
- Ezekiel 27:21 ἐνπορεύομαι Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.
- Hosea 12:2 ἐνπορεύομαι Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, And will punish Jacob according to his ways; According to his deeds he will repay him.
- Amos 8:6 ἐνπορεύομαι That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1710) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
