Word Summary
pipraskō: to sell
Original Word: πιπράσκωTransliteration: pipraskō
Phonetic Spelling: (pip-ras'-ko)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sell
Meaning: to sell
Strong's Concordance
sell.
A reduplicated and prolonged form of prao (prah'-o); (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses) contracted from perao (to traverse; from the base of peran); to traffic (by travelling), i.e. Dispose of as merchandise or into slavery (literally or figuratively) -- sell.
see GREEK peran
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4097: πιπράσκωπιπράσκω: imperfect
ἐπίπρασκον; perfect
πέπρακα; passive, present participle
πιπρασκόμενος; perfect participle
πεπραμένος; 1 aorist
ἐπράθην; (from
περάω to cross, to transport to a distant land); from
Aeschylus and
Herodotus down; the
Sept. for
מָכַר;
to sell:
Matthew 13:46 (on the use of the perfect, cf.
Sophocles' Glossary, etc., Introduction, § 82, 4)
Acts 2:45;
Acts 4:34;
Acts 5:4; with the genitive of price,
Matthew 26:9;
Mark 14:5;
John 12:5 (
Deuteronomy 21:14);
τινα, one into slavery,
Matthew 18:25; hence, metaphorically,
πεπραμένος ὑπό τήν ἁμαρτίαν (
A. V. sold under sin) i. e. entirely under the control of the love of sinning,
Romans 7:14 (
ἐπράθησαν τοῦ ποιῆσαι τό πονηρόν,
2 Kings 17:17; 1 Macc. 1:15, cf.
1 Kings 20:25 (
); with a dative of the master to whom one is sold as a slave, Leviticus 25:39; Deuteronomy 15:12; Deuteronomy 28:68; Baruch 4:6; Sophocles Trach. 252; ἑαυτόν τίνι, of one bribed to give himself up wholly to another's will, τῷ Φιλίππῳ, Demosthenes, p. 148, 8).