Genesis 39:11
And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
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1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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Genesis
11 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Joshua
22 verses
Judges
22 verses
1 Samuel
43 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
33 verses
Nehemiah
33 verses
Esther
11 verses
Psalms
11 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Ecclesiastes
22 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
11 verses
Romans
22 verses
1 Thessalonians
11 verses
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מְלָאכָה
mᵉlâʼkâh · mel-aw-kaw'
12 times translated as this KJV form159 total Strong's occurrences
properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
Strong's KJV usage: business, cattle, industrious, occupation, ( -pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
Strong's first: Genesis 39:11Strong's last: Daniel 8:27
Open full H4399 profile →דָּבָר
dâbâr · daw-baw'
8 times translated as this KJV form1,425 total Strong's occurrences
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
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Strong's first: Deuteronomy 24:5Strong's last: 1 Samuel 21:8
Open full H1697 profile →עִנְיָן
ʻinyân · in-yawn'
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair
Strong's KJV usage: business, travail.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 5:3Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 8:16
Open full H6045 profile →ἴδιος
ídios · id'-ee-os
1 times translated as this KJV form110 total Strong's occurrences
pertaining to self, i.e. one's own; by implication, private or separate
Strong's KJV usage: :--X his acquaintance, when they were alone, apart, aside, due, his (own, proper, several), home, (her, our, thine, your) own (business), private(-ly), proper, severally, their (own).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 4:11Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 4:11
Open full G2398 profile →ὁ
ho · ho
1 times translated as this KJV form1,134 total Strong's occurrences
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
Strong's KJV usage: :--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Strong's first: Luke 2:49Strong's last: Luke 2:49
Open full G3588 profile →πρᾶγμα
prâgma · prag'-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a deed; by implication, an affair; by extension, an object (material)
Strong's KJV usage: :--business, matter, thing, work.
Strong's first: Romans 16:2Strong's last: Romans 16:2
Open full G4229 profile →σπουδή
spoudḗ · spoo-day'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
"speed", i.e. (by implication) despatch, eagerness, earnestness
Strong's KJV usage: :--business, (earnest) care(-fulness), diligence, forwardness, haste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 12:11Strong's last: Romans 12:11
Open full G4710 profile →χρεία
chreía · khri'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form47 total Strong's occurrences
employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution
Strong's KJV usage: :--business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 6:3Strong's last: Acts 6:3
Open full G5532 profile →מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh · mah-as-eh'
1 times translated as this KJV form229 total Strong's occurrences
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Strong's KJV usage: act, art, bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, × well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 20:19Strong's last: 1 Samuel 20:19
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H6045
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
H6045
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
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business
BUSINESS, noun biz'ness. [See Busy.] Employment; that which occupies the time, attention and labor of men, for the purpose of profit or improvement--a word of extensive use and indefinite signification. business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural number, businesses. business is also any temporary employment.
1. Affairs; concerns; as, a man leaves his business in an unsettled state.
2. The subject of employment; that which engages the care and attention.
You are so much the business of our souls.
3. Serious engagement; important occupation, in distinction from trivial affairs.
It should be the main business of life to serve God, and obey his commands.
4. Concern; right of action or interposing.
'What business has a man with the disputes of others?'
5. A point; a matter of question; something to be examined or considered.
Fitness to govern is a perplexed business
6. Something to be done; employment of importance to one's interest, opposed to amusement; as, we have no business in town.
They were far from the Zidonians and had no business with any one.
7. Duty, or employment that duty enjoins. A lawyer's business is to do justice to his clients.
To do the business for a man, is to kill, destroy or ruin him.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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