Emporeúomai — G1710

Definition

verb

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

1. to go a trading, to travel for business, to traffic, trade
2. to use a thing or a person for gain (A. V. make merchandise of)

Usually translated as

buy and sell, make merchandise

Origin

from G1722 and G4198

• en (G1722)
• poreúomai (G4198)

Occurrences

Emporeúomai occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: James (1), 2 Peter (1)

• 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 (εμπορευσομεθα), and get gain:
• 2 Peter 2:3 — And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise (ἐμπορεύσονται) of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.