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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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
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11 verses
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22 verses
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Luke
11 verses
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22 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.
Other KJV renderings
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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H4399
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.
H1697
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
H1697
And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
H1697
And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
H1697
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
H1697
And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
H4639
And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
H1697
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
H1697
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
H1697
And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
H4399
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
H4399
And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.
H4399
But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
H4399
And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.
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Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
H4399
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.
H4399
The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.
H4399
Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
H4399
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
H4399
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
H4399
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
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:)
H4399
And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.
G3588
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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