Lexical Summary
pragmateia: Business, occupation, transaction
Original Word: πραγματεία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: pragmateia
Pronunciation: prag-mat-i'-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (prag-mat-i'-ah)
KJV: affair
NASB: affairs
Word Origin: [from G4231 (πραγματεύομαι - do business)]
1. a transaction, i.e. negotiation
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
negotiation, transaction
From pragmateuomai; a transaction, i.e. Negotiation -- affair.
see GREEK pragmateuomai
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 4230 pragmateía – a necessary daily (business) transaction. See 4231 (pragmateuomai).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
pragmateuomaiDefinitioncareful application, hard work
NASB Translationaffairs (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4230: πραγματείαπραγματεία (
T WH πραγματια; see Iota),
πραγματείας,
ἡ (
πραγματεύομαι), prosecution of any affair;
business, occupation: plural with the addition of
τοῦ βίου, pursuits and occupations pertaining to civil life, opposed to warfare (
A. V. the affairs of this life),
2 Timothy 2:4 (In the same and other senses in Greek writings from (
Hippocrates),
Xenophon,
Plato down.)