Strong G4234πρᾶξις
action
- Transliteration
- praxis
- Pronunciation
- prax'-is
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From G4238; practice that is (concretely) an act; by extension a function: - deed office work.
Detailed definition
πρᾶξις, -εως, ἡ
(πράσσω), [in LXX: 2Ch.13:22 27:7 28:26 (דֶּרֶךְ), Job.24:5 A (פֹּעַל), Pro.13:13, Wis.9:11, al.;]
1. a doing, deed, act: Mat.16:27; pl., π. ἀποσπτόλων, Ac, title; in late writers especially of wicked deeds or practices (frequently in Polyb.): Luk.23:51; p1., Rom.8:13, Col.3:9; with ref. to magic (see BS, 3235), Act.19:18.
2. an acting, action, business, function: Rom.12:4.†
(AS)
(πράσσω), [in LXX: 2Ch.13:22 27:7 28:26 (דֶּרֶךְ), Job.24:5 A (פֹּעַל), Pro.13:13, Wis.9:11, al.;]
1. a doing, deed, act: Mat.16:27; pl., π. ἀποσπτόλων, Ac, title; in late writers especially of wicked deeds or practices (frequently in Polyb.): Luk.23:51; p1., Rom.8:13, Col.3:9; with ref. to magic (see BS, 3235), Act.19:18.
2. an acting, action, business, function: Rom.12:4.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4234 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- deed4
- office1
- the1
- work1
First verses
- Matthew 16:27For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
- Luke 23:51(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
- Acts 19:18And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
- Romans 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
- Romans 12:4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
- Colossians 3:9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
πρᾶξις, εως,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πρῆξις, ιος, ἡ: (πράσσω):— doing, transaction, business, [πλεῖν] κατὰ πρῆξιν on a trading voyage, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.72; ἐπὶ πρῆξιν ἔπλεον “hymnus ad Apollinem” 397)]; π. δ᾽ ἥδ᾽ ἰδίη, οὐ δήμιος a private, not a public affair, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.82; π. μηδὲ φίλοισιν ὅμως ἀνακοινέο πᾶσιν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 73)]; ἡ περί τινος π. the transaction respecting.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.88.)]
2 result or issue of a business, especially good result, success, οὐ γάρ τις πρῆξις πέλεται.. γόοιο no good comes of weeping, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.524; οὔ τις π. ἐγίγνετο μυρομένοισιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.202)]; λυμαίνεσθαί τινι τὴν π. to spoil one's market, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.16)]; π. φίλαν δίδοι grant a happy issue. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.85; π. οὐρίαν θέλων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 814 (Lyric poetry))]; ταχεῖά γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν π. their issue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pers.” 739; ἄνευ τούτων οὐκ ἂν εἵη π. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.2; δὸς πόρον καὶ π. τῷ τόπῳ τούτῳ “PMag.Par.” 1.2366.)]
II doing, τῶν ἀγαθῶν (of persons) πρήξιες [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1026; ἡ τῶν ἀγαθῶν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 163e; ἡ π. τῶν ἔργων 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.9)]; achievement, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.114)]; π. πολεμική, πολιητική, πολιτική, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 399a, “Sph.” 266d, “Men.” 99b)]; action, opposed to πάθος, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 876d)]; opposed to ἕξις, [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 434a)]; moral action, opposed to ποίησις, τέχνη, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1140a2, 1097a16)]; opposed to ποιότης, [Refs ([prev. author] “Po.” 1450a18, compare “EN” 1178a35 (_plural_); ἤθη καὶ πάθη καὶ π. [prev. author] “Po.” 1447a28)]; opposed to οἱ πολιτικοὶ λόγοι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.44; ἔργῳ καὶ πράξεσιν, οὐχὶ λόγοις [prev. author] 6.3)]; ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι ὄντα τε καὶ πραττόμενα exhibited in actual life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 271d)]; action in drama, opposed to λόγος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1454a18; μία π. ὅλη καὶ τελεία [prev. work] 1459a19, compare 1451b33 (_plural_).)]
II.2 action, exercise, χειρῶν, σκελῶν, στόματος, φωνῆς, διανοίας, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 192a.)]
II.3 euphemistic for sexual intercourse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 127, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.158, etc.; in full, ἡ π. ἡ γεννητική 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 539b20.)]
II.4 magical operation, spell, [Refs (PMag.Par. 1.1227, +others, “PMag.Lond.” 125.40.)]
III action, act, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 895 (Lyric poetry, _plural_), “OC” 560, etc.; μιᾶς μόνον μνησθήσομαι π. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.127.)]
III.b military action, battle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.19.11, etc.)]
IV doing, faring well or ill, fortune, state, condition, ἀπέκλαιε.. τὴν ἑωυτοῦ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.65, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 695 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 790, 792; εύτυχὴς π. [prev. author] “Tr.” 294; κακαὶ π. [prev. author] “Ant.” 1305.)]
V practical ability, π. καὶ σύνεσις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.47.5; ἡ ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς π. [prev. author] 4.77.1.)]
V.2 practice, i.e. trickery, treachery, ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν [Refs ([prev. author] 2.9.2)]; κατὰ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλούς, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.71.6, 5.96.4.)]
VI exaction of money, recovery of debts, arrears, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.57.13, +others; συμβολαίων πράξεις 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.88; τοῦ μισθοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 328b; τελῶν [prev. author] “R.” 425d (_plural_))]; παρὰ Ἀρτέμωνος.. ἔστω ἡ π. τοῖς δανείσασι let the lenders have an action of recovery against Artemon, Syngr. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.12, compare “SIG” 364.61,67 (Ephesus, 3rd c.BC), “Test.Epict.” 5.31; ἡ π. ἔστω καθάπερ ἐκ δίκης “PEleph.” 1.12 (4th c.BC), etc.)]; αἱ π. τῶν καταδικασθέντων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1321b42.)]
VI.2 exaction of vengeance, retribution, βαρβάρων χάριν γάμων πρᾶξιν ὡς Ἑλλὰς λάβοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 272 (Lyric poetry).)]
VII public office, ἡ διοικηθεῖσα π. Epist. Macrin. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 5.1.2.)]
VIII discourse, lecture of a rhetorician or philosopher, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.59c, 5th-6th c.AD: Marinus Biographus “Procl.” 22.)]
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πρῆξις, ιος, ἡ: (πράσσω):— doing, transaction, business, [πλεῖν] κατὰ πρῆξιν on a trading voyage, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.72; ἐπὶ πρῆξιν ἔπλεον “hymnus ad Apollinem” 397)]; π. δ᾽ ἥδ᾽ ἰδίη, οὐ δήμιος a private, not a public affair, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.82; π. μηδὲ φίλοισιν ὅμως ἀνακοινέο πᾶσιν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 73)]; ἡ περί τινος π. the transaction respecting.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.88.)]
2 result or issue of a business, especially good result, success, οὐ γάρ τις πρῆξις πέλεται.. γόοιο no good comes of weeping, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.524; οὔ τις π. ἐγίγνετο μυρομένοισιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.202)]; λυμαίνεσθαί τινι τὴν π. to spoil one's market, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.16)]; π. φίλαν δίδοι grant a happy issue. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.85; π. οὐρίαν θέλων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 814 (Lyric poetry))]; ταχεῖά γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν π. their issue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pers.” 739; ἄνευ τούτων οὐκ ἂν εἵη π. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.2; δὸς πόρον καὶ π. τῷ τόπῳ τούτῳ “PMag.Par.” 1.2366.)]
II doing, τῶν ἀγαθῶν (of persons) πρήξιες [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1026; ἡ τῶν ἀγαθῶν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 163e; ἡ π. τῶν ἔργων 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.9)]; achievement, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.114)]; π. πολεμική, πολιητική, πολιτική, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 399a, “Sph.” 266d, “Men.” 99b)]; action, opposed to πάθος, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 876d)]; opposed to ἕξις, [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 434a)]; moral action, opposed to ποίησις, τέχνη, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1140a2, 1097a16)]; opposed to ποιότης, [Refs ([prev. author] “Po.” 1450a18, compare “EN” 1178a35 (_plural_); ἤθη καὶ πάθη καὶ π. [prev. author] “Po.” 1447a28)]; opposed to οἱ πολιτικοὶ λόγοι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.44; ἔργῳ καὶ πράξεσιν, οὐχὶ λόγοις [prev. author] 6.3)]; ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι ὄντα τε καὶ πραττόμενα exhibited in actual life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 271d)]; action in drama, opposed to λόγος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1454a18; μία π. ὅλη καὶ τελεία [prev. work] 1459a19, compare 1451b33 (_plural_).)]
II.2 action, exercise, χειρῶν, σκελῶν, στόματος, φωνῆς, διανοίας, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 192a.)]
II.3 euphemistic for sexual intercourse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 127, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.158, etc.; in full, ἡ π. ἡ γεννητική 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 539b20.)]
II.4 magical operation, spell, [Refs (PMag.Par. 1.1227, +others, “PMag.Lond.” 125.40.)]
III action, act, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 895 (Lyric poetry, _plural_), “OC” 560, etc.; μιᾶς μόνον μνησθήσομαι π. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.127.)]
III.b military action, battle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.19.11, etc.)]
IV doing, faring well or ill, fortune, state, condition, ἀπέκλαιε.. τὴν ἑωυτοῦ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.65, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 695 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 790, 792; εύτυχὴς π. [prev. author] “Tr.” 294; κακαὶ π. [prev. author] “Ant.” 1305.)]
V practical ability, π. καὶ σύνεσις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.47.5; ἡ ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς π. [prev. author] 4.77.1.)]
V.2 practice, i.e. trickery, treachery, ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν [Refs ([prev. author] 2.9.2)]; κατὰ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλούς, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.71.6, 5.96.4.)]
VI exaction of money, recovery of debts, arrears, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.57.13, +others; συμβολαίων πράξεις 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.88; τοῦ μισθοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 328b; τελῶν [prev. author] “R.” 425d (_plural_))]; παρὰ Ἀρτέμωνος.. ἔστω ἡ π. τοῖς δανείσασι let the lenders have an action of recovery against Artemon, Syngr. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.12, compare “SIG” 364.61,67 (Ephesus, 3rd c.BC), “Test.Epict.” 5.31; ἡ π. ἔστω καθάπερ ἐκ δίκης “PEleph.” 1.12 (4th c.BC), etc.)]; αἱ π. τῶν καταδικασθέντων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1321b42.)]
VI.2 exaction of vengeance, retribution, βαρβάρων χάριν γάμων πρᾶξιν ὡς Ἑλλὰς λάβοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 272 (Lyric poetry).)]
VII public office, ἡ διοικηθεῖσα π. Epist. Macrin. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 5.1.2.)]
VIII discourse, lecture of a rhetorician or philosopher, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.59c, 5th-6th c.AD: Marinus Biographus “Procl.” 22.)]