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ἔμπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμπορος ἔμπορον

Structure: ἐμπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, po/ros, cf. pera/w

Sense

  1. one who goes on shipboard as a passenger
  2. any one on a journey, a traveller, wanderer
  3. a merchant, trader, a trafficker

Examples

  • καὶ παρεπορεύοντο οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ Μαδιηναῖοι ἔμποροι, καὶ ἐξείλκυσαν καὶ ἀνεβίβασαν τὸν Ἰωσὴφ ἐκ τοῦ λάκκου καὶ ἀπέδοντο τὸν Ἰωσὴφ τοῖσ Ἰσμαηλίταισ εἴκοσι χρυσῶν, καὶ κατήγαγον τὸν Ἰωσὴφ εἰσ Αἴγυπτον. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 37:28)
  • καὶ ἡ ἔξοδοσ Σαλωμὼν τῶν ἱππέων καὶ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἐκ Θεκουέ, ἔμποροι τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἐλάμβανον ἐκ Θεκουὲ ἐν ἀλλάγματι. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 10:30)
  • καὶ ἤκουσαν οἱ ἔμποροι τῆσ χώρασ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν καὶ ἔλαβον ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον πολὺ σφόδρα καὶ πέδασ καὶ ἦλθον εἰσ τὴν παρεμβολὴν τοῦ λαβεῖν τοὺσ υἱοὺσ Ἰσραὴλ εἰσ παῖδασ. καὶ προσετέθησαν πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ δύναμισ Συρίασ καὶ γῆσ ἀλλοφύλων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 3:41)
  • τίσ ταῦτα ἐβούλευσεν ἐπὶ Τύρον̣ μὴ ἥσσων ἐστὶν ἢ οὐκ ἰσχύει̣ οἱ ἔμποροι αὐτῆσ ἔνδοξοι, ἄρχοντεσ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 23:8)
  • οὔτε υἱοὶ Ἄγαρ, οἱ ἐκζητοῦντεσ τὴν σύνεσιν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ, οἱ ἔμποροι τῆσ Μερρὰν καὶ Θαιμάν, οἱ μυθολόγοι καὶ οἱ ἐκζητηταὶ τῆσ συνέσεωσ, ὁδὸν τῆσ σοφίασ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν, οὐδὲ ἐμνήσθησαν τὰσ τρίβουσ αὐτῆσ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Baruch 3:23)

Synonyms

  1. one who goes on shipboard as a passenger

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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