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Lexicon :: Strong's G4229 - pragma

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πρᾶγμα
Transliteration
pragma (Key)
Pronunciation
prag'-mah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:638,927

Strong’s Definitions

πρᾶγμα prâgma, prag'-mah; from G4238; a deed; by implication, an affair; by extension, an object (material):—business, matter, thing, work.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G4229 in the following manner: thing (6x), matter (3x), business (1x), work (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G4229 in the following manner: thing (6x), matter (3x), business (1x), work (1x).

  1. that which has been done, a deed, an accomplished fact

  2. what is done or being accomplished

    1. spec. business, a commercial transaction

  3. a matter, question, affair

    1. spec. in a forensic sense, a matter at law, case, suit

  4. that which is or exists, a thing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πρᾶγμα prâgma, prag'-mah; from G4238; a deed; by implication, an affair; by extension, an object (material):—business, matter, thing, work.
STRONGS G4229:
πρᾶγμα, πράγματος, τό (πράσσω), from (Pindar), Aeschylus, Herodotus down, the Sept. chiefly for דָּבָר
a. that which has been done, a deed, an accomplished fact: Luke 1:1; Acts 5:4; 2 Corinthians 7:11; Hebrews 6:18.
b. what is doing or being accomplished: James 3:16; specifically, business (commercial transaction), 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (so Winers Grammar, 115 (109); others refer this example to c. and render in the matter (spoken of, or conventionally understood; cf. Green, Gram., p. 26f)).
c. a matter (in question), affair: Matthew 18:19; Romans 16:2; specifically, in a forensic sense, a matter at law, case, suit (Xenophon, mem. 2, 9, 1; Demosthenes, 1120, 26; Josephus, Antiquities 14, 10, 17): πρᾶγμα ἔχειν πρός τινα (A. V. having a matter against, etc.), 1 Corinthians 6:1.
d. that which is or exists, a thing: Hebrews 10:1; πράγματα οὐ βλεπόμενα, Hebrews 11:1 (see ἐλπίζω).*,
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
18:19
Luke
1:1
Acts
5:4
Romans
16:2
1 Corinthians
6:1
2 Corinthians
7:11
1 Thessalonians
4:6
Hebrews
6:18; 10:1; 11:1
James
3:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4229 matches the Greek πρᾶγμα (pragma),
which occurs 47 times in 46 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[fn])

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26 - But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:15 - Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done? Don’t you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - “ ‘If anyone becomes aware that they are guilty—if they unwittingly touch anything ceremonially unclean (whether the carcass of an unclean animal, wild or domestic, or of any unclean creature that moves along the ground) and they are unaware that they have become unclean, but then they come to realize their guilt;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:5 - or whatever it was they swore falsely about. They must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner on the day they present their guilt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - Anyone who touches something unclean—whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean creature that moves along the ground[fn]—and then eats any of the meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD must be cut off from their people.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19 - The Israelites replied: “We will go along the main road, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to pass through on foot—nothing else.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8 - “Spend the night here,” Balaam said to them, “and I will report back to you with the answer the LORD gives me.” So the Moabite officials stayed with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:23 - and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10 - You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:14 - For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:19 - Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:1 - If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5 - If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24 - They answered Joshua, “Your servants were clearly told how the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you the whole land and to wipe out all its inhabitants from before you. So we feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They asked each other, “Who did this?” When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - We have both straw and fodder for our donkeys and bread and wine for ourselves your servants—me, the woman and the young man with us. We don’t need anything.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27 - Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the terraces[fn] and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:7 - This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:8 - Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:19 - He also stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the LORD’s temple so that no one who was in any way unclean might enter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:15 - The couriers went out, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:5 - King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he—the man who has dared to do such a thing?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:1 - In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8 - Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:3 - They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:6 - nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:3 - I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:13 - A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:13 - Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it, but whoever respects a command is rewarded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:20 - Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,[fn] and blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:2 - It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1 - There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17 - I said to myself, “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:8 - If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6 - For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:1 - LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:22 - Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the LORD Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:16 - But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Don’t do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is not true.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:4 - Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - When the LORD could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:17 - A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel’s situation might not be changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:7 - Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
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