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.
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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G5532
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
G4710
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
G4229
That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
G2398
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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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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