Original Word: ἐμπόριον
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: emporion
Pronunciation: em-PO-ree-on
Phonetic Spelling: (em-por'-ee-on)
KJV: merchandise
NASB: business
Word Origin: [neuter from G1713 (ἔμπορος - merchants)]

1. a mart ("emporium")

a market

Neuter from emporos; a mart ("emporium") -- merchandise.

see GREEK emporos

Cognate: 1712 empórion – an emporium; a marketplace for trading (doing commerce), used only in Jn 2:16 (see also Lk 19:13). See 1713 (emporia).

Word Origin
neut. from emporos
Definition
a trading place
NASB Translation
business (1).

STRONGS NT 1712: ἐμπόριον

ἐμπόριον (see ἐν, III. 3), ἐμπορίου, τό (ἔμπορος), a place where trade is carried on, especially a seaport; a mart, emporium; (Pliny,forumnundinarium): οἶκος ἐμπορίου a market house (epexegetical genitive (Winers Grammar, § 59, 8 a.; A. V. a house of merchandise)), John 2:16. (From Herodotus down; the Sept..)

Forms and Transliterations

εμπόρια εμπόριον εμποριου εμπορίου ἐμπορίου εμπορίω emporiou emporíou

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